gimp-app depending on alsa-lib

[Charlie Li]

Goran Mekić via freebsd-gnome wrote:
> I'm trying to port as much apps to use OSS as sound system instead of
> ALSA, JACK or PulseAudio, and I noticed that graphics/gimp-app depends on
> alsa-lib. I compiled it without alsa-lib and gimp itself is working. I'm
> wondering, why is alsa needed for graphical application? I would suggest
> removing that dependency, but I want to understand the implications,
> first.
> 
ALSA is used for MIDI controller support, but is optional:
https://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/gimp-midi.html

I don't have a MIDI controller to test this support using just the
facilities sound(4) provides, but given that audio/alsa-lib is an
unconditional dependency may suggest that just piping in the device file
doesn't work.

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