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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?
From:       Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2011-02-25 8:08:54
Message-ID: AANLkTin6uNAPjhb-o-1WchyU_gb1=J1JxX_oARzULQAu () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 8 February 2011 01:18, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 08:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
[...]
>> The "means" are commonly used as USE flag names with "result" in USE
>> flag description.  Think of "gstreamer", or "xine" for example.

Both of these are reasonably well-known, libcanberra is not. Moreover,
when these are available, they might represent a choice of backends,
with maintainers ideally picking one that is preferable, leaving the
picking an alternative choice to users.

>> But I'm open to suggestions...
>>
>
> How about event-sounds?
>
> "libcanberra is an implementation of the XDG Sound Theme and Name
> Specifications, for generating event sounds on free desktops, such as
> GNOME."
>
> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#overview

This sounds reasonable. Did I miss some conversation somewhere,
because it appears that "libcanberra" got finalised [1] on (even
though I believe it's a horribly unintuitive name to foist on users).

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354585

Cheers,
-- 
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)


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