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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?
From:       Michael <confabulate () kintzios ! com>
Date:       2022-10-01 16:56:40
Message-ID: 2601650.BddDVKsqQX () lenovo ! localdomain
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On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:57:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 7:51 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:08:40 BST Michael wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 29 September 2022 15:11:02 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > > On 28/09/2022 13:57, Michael wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had
> > 
> > pulseaudio
> > 
> > > > > removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency.  I have set USE="-
> > > > > screencast", because I don't need/want this functionality, as I have
> > > > > done
> > > > > on other systems which nevertheless have had pipewire brought in as
> 
> a
> 
> > > > > dependency.
> > > > 
> > > > Probably some other package pulls it in directly, independent of the
> > > > screencast USE flag. For example media-sound/easyeffects.
> > > 
> > > I just looked and a pipewire(d) system has only a few additional audio
> > > applications, spek, vidcutter, easytag, none of which seem to bring in
> > > pipewire.  I think I'll have to install it manually on the system which
> > > doesn't bring it in as some dependency.  Somehow I was under the
> 
> impression
> 
> > > it comes with Plasma these days, but perhaps I have stripped down this
> > > Plasma/kde installation too much.
> > 
> > I have no pipewire on this fairly standard Plasma box.
> 
> I believe that pipewire, as far as KDE users are concerned, is a
> distro choice about when to use it.
> 
> My Kubuntu boxes started using it recently. I had no issues and
> didn't need to change any settings for any application that makes
> use of sound.
> 
> YMMV,
> Mark

Thank you all for your responses.  It could be some Plasma/KDE USE flag which 
differs between my systems causing this.  Without spending a lot of time I 
wouldn't know for sure TBH.

Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work 
without pulseaudio and in this system it won't.  After I manually installed 
pipewire Skype won't access the microphone.  :-(

Re-enabling pulseaudio wants to rebuild some 30 packages including 
qtwebengine.  That's an overnight job on this old laptop.
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