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  • Re: [gentoo-user] Selective news?

    From Rich Freeman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 30 16:40:02 2022
    On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:27 AM Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:

    Then I went to my ~amd64 machine and looked for the same news item - and there was no sign of anything about either pulse or pipe. This machine has no working sound hardware, but even so, how did the news function know not to fetch that item?

    From: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt

    Display-If-Installed: media-video/pipewire
    Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio
    Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon
    Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpulse

    If you have any of those packages installed, the news will display.

    We try to filter news so that users aren't bombarded by things that
    aren't relevant to them. For example, a few weeks ago there was
    apparently a corruption in the mu MUA (which I'd never heard of),
    which would be really important to know about if you were one of the
    0.001% of Gentoo users who rely on it.

    --
    Rich

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  • From Peter Humphrey@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 30 16:30:01 2022
    Hello list,

    My amd64 workstation received a news item about pulseaudio and pipewire
    today. I did what it recommended to keep pulseaudio because plasma-meta requires that.

    Then I went to my ~amd64 machine and looked for the same news item - and
    there was no sign of anything about either pulse or pipe. This machine has no working sound hardware, but even so, how did the news function know not to fetch that item?

    --
    Regards,
    Peter.

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  • From Peter Humphrey@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 31 00:20:01 2022
    On Saturday, 30 July 2022 15:36:35 BST Rich Freeman wrote:

    From: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2022-07-29-pipewire-soun d-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt

    Display-If-Installed: media-video/pipewire
    Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio
    Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon
    Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpulse

    If you have any of those packages installed, the news will display.

    But pulseaudio is installed, having been pulled in by plasma-meta; that's why
    I was puzzled.

    $ eix -Ic pulse
    [I] media-libs/libpulse (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Libraries for PulseAudio clients
    [I] media-sound/pulseaudio (16.1{xpak}@10/07/22): A meta package for
    PulseAudio (networked sound server)
    [I] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Daemon component of PulseAudio (networked sound server)
    Found 3 matches

    The only pertinent difference between the machines is that one is amd64, the other ~amd64. Well, the ~amd64 box has no sound hardware, but apart from that...

    We try to filter news so that users aren't bombarded by things that
    aren't relevant to them.

    And it has worked well for me too until now.

    For example, a few weeks ago there was apparently a corruption in the mu MUA (which I'd never heard of), which would be really important to know about if you were one of the 0.001% of Gentoo users who rely on it.

    Yes, I saw that, and no, I hadn't heard of it either.

    --
    Regards,
    Peter.

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  • From Alexander Puchmayr@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 31 14:40:01 2022
    Same here, pulseaudio daemon is no longer started automatically. Starting it from a shell (simply call pulseaudio ) and audio works fine again.

    Not sure which start script to add it to; .login or .profile are unsuitable because it would then start it at every login even with ssh).

    Alex

    Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2022, 00:12:49 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey:
    On Saturday, 30 July 2022 15:36:35 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
    From: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2022-07-29-pipewire-so un d-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt

    Display-If-Installed: media-video/pipewire
    Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio
    Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon
    Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpulse

    If you have any of those packages installed, the news will display.

    But pulseaudio is installed, having been pulled in by plasma-meta; that's
    why I was puzzled.

    $ eix -Ic pulse
    [I] media-libs/libpulse (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Libraries for PulseAudio clients
    [I] media-sound/pulseaudio (16.1{xpak}@10/07/22): A meta package for PulseAudio (networked sound server)
    [I] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Daemon component of PulseAudio (networked sound server)
    Found 3 matches

    The only pertinent difference between the machines is that one is amd64, the other ~amd64. Well, the ~amd64 box has no sound hardware, but apart from that...

    We try to filter news so that users aren't bombarded by things that
    aren't relevant to them.

    And it has worked well for me too until now.

    For example, a few weeks ago there was apparently a corruption in the mu MUA (which I'd never heard of), which would be really important to know about if you were one of the 0.001% of Gentoo users who rely on it.

    Yes, I saw that, and no, I hadn't heard of it either.

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  • From Alexander Puchmayr@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 6 08:20:01 2022
    Am Dienstag, 2. August 2022, 01:04:56 CEST schrieb Ramon Fischer:
    Take a look in "/etc/pulse/client.conf".

    You can either set "autospawn = yes" or comment it.

    That did it. For some reason, after the update it was set to no.

    Thanks
    Alex

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