On 2015-02-12, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > You are missing the point that Fedora clients can be run against non-Fedora servers. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
