On Mon, 06.10.08 14:09, Ozan ?a?layan (ozan at pardus.org.tr) wrote: Heya, > The GIT branch of pavucontrol and the latest stable release strictly > depends on libcanberra for managing the event sounds' volume. I think > that this dependency should be made "optional" so that the distributions > with KDE desktop environment can compile it without depending on > libcanberra. Sorry, but that's not gonna happen. What are you asking me for next? Maybe that the dep on gtk should become optional too? I never bought that "dependency hell" moaning. I mean, the point of the distros and the point of things like "yum" and "apt-get" is to hide the dependency system from you. What's the problem with libcanberra? It's a tiny library. It exposes only a handful of functions. You are welcome to compile the "null" backend in if you really want no audio. If you do that it is just a handful on kilobytes. I also don't see why depending on pavucontrol has anything to do with running KDE or not. libcanberra is not a gtk library -- it does not depend on anything like glib or other g'ish stuff. If you believe that KDE users should not get sound feedback then it is very easy to set CANBERRA_DRIVER=null for your KDE sessions. Sorry, but what you request is not going to happen. At least not as long as I need to maintain pavucontrol. (hint, hint: I have been looking for someone else to maintain this package for quite a while. Noone interested and capable has shown up yet) Polluting my sources with lots if #ifdefs for nothing is not going to happen especially if I cannot even remotely see what good that would be for. (oh, and if it is ecc9ad9b06184dc2a4d2bc8da581d8bca0ae67aa what you are speaking of you are removing from your builds -- from all commits in the repo that's the one I seriously fucked up and accidently commited three things in one. I had hoped nobody would notice this sin of my youth, but apparently this is now coming after me. The commit contains some important fixes, too.) Sorry, Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
