On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote: > 140731 Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > When reading pdf files, one expects images, so tiff and jpeg are > > reasonable flags. One does *NOT* expect audio stuff like phonon. > > And phonon *DEMANDS SOMETHING*. vlc is one of the options that satisfies > > phonon's demands. Or you could choose gstreamer and its gazillion > > plugins. > > Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ; > the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand > that you install the actual sound software : > it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon' > & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well. > > If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag, > but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require 'USE=<soundpkg>", > perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'. > Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace).
Do you still have the bug numbers for this? I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates. -- Joost
