Disabling dependency on esound in ports builds

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Fri May 20 22:24:07 GMT 2005


On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:32:36 -0500, "Conrad J. Sabatier"
<conrads at cox.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 May 2005 11:39:22 -0700, Kris Kennaway
> <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:49:33PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > Is there any standardized technique (using portupgrade's
> > > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf) for disabling the inclusion of
> > > esound for ports which depend on it?  I find esound to be a
> > > troublesome package which often results in the slowing down or
> > > chopping up of audio playback when the system is under moderate to
> > > heavy load.
> > 
> > WITHOUT_ESOUND=yes
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> No, that doesn't do it.  Not only does the port (madplay) still link
> against esound, the package name also ends up as "madplay-esound".

Looking at a few ports, it appears that the way to do it is do define
"WITHOUT_GNOME=esound".  I've tried this with several ports and it seems
to work.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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