Re: libcanberra as an external dependency

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:52 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:25 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> While esd may be considered old, it's not exotic.  It is THE sound 
> >> server for GNOME right now.
> > 
> > It is the *deprecated* sound server for GNOME.  We don't complain when
> > applications stop linking to libgnomeui because they can use modern
> > replacements, so I don't see the problem here.
> 
> But the modern replacements for libgnomeui are blessed GNOME 
> dependencies.  I don't see pulseaudio listed in the platform, desktop, 
> or external dependency lists.

We're trying to kill esound completely, and having the release-team look
in the other direction when we're adding those new dependencies is the
easiest way for us to move in that direction.

In any cases, it's the distributor's decision which sound server to use,
but I wouldn't want to be the one wasting (a small amount of) time
writing an esound backend for libcanberra.