alsa vs OSS in esound (Re: SPECS: esound.spec (HEAD))

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:26:37PM +0200, Radoslaw Zielinski wrote:
> Michal Moskal <malekith at pld-linux.org> [02-09-2003 20:13]:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:08:37PM +0200, malekith wrote:
> >> Module name:	SPECS
> >> Changes by:	malekith	03/09/02 20:08:35
> 
> >> Modified files:
> >> 	esound.spec
> 
> >> Log message:
> >> - fix --without alsa descripting -- enabling alsa disables OSS
> > You can enable either alsa or OSS in esd. I personally use OSS, some
> > people use alsa, so there is no good default for distribution. A
> > solution would be to provide esound-alsa and esound-oss mutually
> > exclusive packages, but only way to do it, I see, is to make
> > libesd.so.x.y a symlink (made in %post) to proper library which is ugly
> > hack I think. Does anybody have better solution?
> 
> Make two distinct packages Conflict:'ing each other, give them Provides:
> esound(thistimereally), and add this to Requires in the (almost empty)
> esound package.  And turn off resolving libfoo.so.x.y -> `rpm -q --qf
> '%{NAME}\n' --whatprovides libfoo.so.x.y` at the building stage, for
> there will only be one esound-(alsa|oss) installed on a builder.

If esound-alsa is to be installed on builder, all built packages would
be linked with alsa libs anyway...


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