[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 16694 - eelco - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: tools/misc/parted top-level

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>> -  SDL = import ../development/libraries/SDL {
>> +  SDL = makeOverridable (import ../development/libraries/SDL) {
>>      inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig x11 mesa alsaLib pulseaudio;
>>      inherit (xlibs) libXrandr;
>>      openglSupport = mesaSupported;
>>      alsaSupport = true;
>> +    pulseaudioSupport = false; # better go through ALSA
>>    };
> 
> You were trying to do that stealthily, uh?  ;-)
> 
> While it's better to do it through ALSA, it's not done yet, and I don't
> think it hurts to have it here.
> 
> Besides, some of your recent changes involves full rebuilds IUIC.

Not of the entire system.  Unfortunately many GUI packages (KDE in particular)
depend on dbus and HAL.  I did get rid of the HAL dependency in KDE, which was
through the kdelibs -> phonon -> xine-lib -> SDL -> PulseAudio -> hal dependency
chain.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/