[Nix-dev] disabling pulseaudio in kde

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi,

If you want to know which packages depends on inside your NixOS
current system, run:

nix-store -q -R --tree /var/run/current-system/ | less

then look at all parents of pulseaudio.  On my system qt depends on pulseaudio.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 16:13,  <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:
> # 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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