[Nix-dev] disabling pulseaudio in kde

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

# nixos-option hardware.pulseaudio.enable
false

I was under the impression that hardware.pulseaudio.enable was for 
enabling root managed pulseaudio (which I understand that pulseaudio does 
*not* recommend).

As I understand this nasty instance of pulseaudio is coming from kde 
somewhere.  Last time, when I was running KDE 4.4, I removed pulseaudio 
from the build inputs of phonon (see nixpkgs revision 24027), but now 
under KDE 4.5, pulseaudio doesn't appear to be in the build inputs to 
phonon.

Although now that I think about it, phonon could get it by the propogated 
build inputs of qt, and indeed this appears to be the case.

Maybe I can just add some sort of build flag to phonon to disable 
pulseaudio...

On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Nicolas Pierron wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 08:44, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
>> On 09/02/2011 01:57 AM, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:
>>> Is there some way to disable pulseaudio in kde-4.5.5?
>>
>> Just set "hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;" in configuration.nix (which
>> happens to be the default).
>
> To know the current value of this option, you can run
>
> nixos-option hardware.pulseaudio.enable
>
> and if it is set to "true", then run
>
> nixos-option -l hardware.pulseaudio.enable
>
> To get the list of modules which are defining it.
>
>

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