Sounf and GNOME [was Re: ports/58840: [PATCH] exclude possibly unrequireddependenciesfrom x11/gnome2]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:26, Stephen Hilton wrote:

> 
> I admin a Gnome2 system that has no sound card and always has an error 
> on Gnome2 desktop startup regarding no sound device.
> 
> In an previous exchange I read this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:36, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Is there any way to install Gnome (or at least the parts of it that
> > are necessary to run Gnome applications, without necessarily using it
> > as a desktop) without the horrible abomination that is esound?  Case
> > in point: print/ggv2; I simply cannot understand why it requires
> > esound.
> 
> Esound is a pretty low-level dependency in GNOME, thus all apps that
> depend on libgnome, depend on esound.  This does not mean you have to
> _use_ esound, though.  You don't have to run the esound daemon.  In
> fact, you could add WITHOUT_GNOME=esound to /etc/make.conf, which will
> prevent esound-optional apps from depending on it.
> 
> Joe
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> These are the 2 lines in the Gnome2 Makefile that reference audio:
> 
> gnome-cd:${PORTSDIR}/audio/gnomemedia2 \
> ${X11BASE}/share/gnome/sounds/question.wav:${PORTSDIR}/audio/gnomeaudio2 \
> 
> 
> What is the correct way to handle this problem ?

Those ports are not the cause of this problem.  ESounD is imported via
x11/libgnome.  You could solve this problem by creating a symlink of
/dev/dsp (or whatever device is listed in the error dialog)pointing to
/dev/null.

Joe

>  (besides adding a sound card ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Stephen Hilton
> nospam at hiltonbsd
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