Re: Sound support on potato

[Eray Ozkural <exa@ttnet.net.tr>]

> bluegreen:~> dlocate -s esound
> Package: esound
> [snip]
> Depends: libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), esound-common
> 
> bluegreen:~> dlocate -s libesd0
> Package: libesd0
> [snip]
> Depends: libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), esound-common
> 
>   I may be confused, but that doesn't look to me like it requires alsa.
> 

Same on my system :) I guess I was wrong. It isn't dependency, but I was using dselect,
and when I removed esound-alsa, all gnome would go away with it. I could have
just used plain esound package of course. I was unable to take note after going
mad at sources of all the different alsa versions on my system. I finally decided
to install my own 0.5.7 modules package, and the lib and util packages and then
to override the old libs from /usr/local

> > Is it a custom to make obsolete software to go in the "stable" version?
> 
>   Yes.  (hopefully a custom which will change someday, but..)
> 

I must have known. ;) Some people have a penchant for old software.

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