[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Make pulseaudio a DISTRO_FEATURE
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Wed Nov 23 16:33:32 UTC 2011
On Wednesday 23 November 2011 16:59:56 Koen Kooi wrote:
> The phonon backends (e.g. gstreamer) are nicely modularized is the
> pulseaudio case different?
Unfortunately yes, since libphonon.so.* itself becomes linked to several
pulseaudio shared libraries when it is enabled at configure time.
> We discussed this in yesterdays TSC meeting and I hope I paraphrase the
> consenses correctly: we want to use PACKAGECONFIG to do the heavy lifting
> (DEPENDS, EXTRA_OECONF) and have DISTRO_FEATURES do the triggering. RP
> pointed out that having DISTRO_FEATURES trigger PACKAGECONFIG currently
> leads to a convoluted syntax which we need to address.
>
> We also agreed that the current behaviour should be retained, so needing to
> add pulse to distro features would go against that. Having said that, I
> personally would dislike having negative ('nopulseaudio') entries to
> address that. Feedback needed :)
I don't see how we can achieve this without making a huge mess. I'm happy to
be proven wrong, but I would really like us to figure this stuff out soon so we
can get the actual problem here fixed.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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