I don't use Gnome but this came up on the Gentoo list and so I post it here in case it's not known already or is of any use to know about it.
____________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> I"m not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is >>> coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you >>> will have to install it if you want newer Gnome. >>> >>> William >>> >> >> That's true, gnome3.8 will require you to install pulseaudio-2 >> > > Are you sure, I know there have been a couple of times in the past > where Gnome has leaned towards Linux only but they have always steered > clear eventually. I know of one guy who runs a network of hundreds of > Gnome/OpenBSD machines that may wish to know about that as I think he > is already getting fed up with the increasing amount of code he has to > write in order to keep the port working. Yes I'm sure, I have gnome 3.8 installed on my machine. gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell have hard deps on pulseaudio. ____________________________________________________________________________ -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
