Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I did a test build of SDL without the audiofile + arts + esound
> dependencies (arts + esound also seem to need audiofile), and it
> builds fine, so that is one route out of this.
Audiofile is bound to stay, and SDL should remain built against it, as
removing it would disable some features that some applications/games using
SDL need.
Feel free, however, to build SDL without aRts and esound support. The only
reason aRts is still in Fedora at all is for things that support ONLY aRts
for sound output (in particular, the knotify in kdelibs3 and the kdelibs3
game taxipilot). There is nothing using aRts as its native sound server
anymore, and there hasn't been since Fedora 9 (!). What will happen if you
try to use aRts output is that an instance of aRts will be spawned, talking
to ALSA, and terminated once the aRts-using application exits. In the
default setup, that means you're running aRts on top of PulseAudio through
the ALSA PulseAudio plugin, not a very interesting setup. (Better use
PulseAudio directly.) And using aRts INSTEAD of PulseAudio is clearly not
something we can or should support anymore, as most applications no longer
support aRts, if they ever did. Esound support is similarly obsolete, it is
only emulated by PulseAudio (we haven't been shipping the real ESD for a
long time, I think since Fedora 8 (!)), so it is better to use native
PulseAudio output.
Kevin Kofler
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