Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:19:54 +0100 From: Sid <sid@bsdmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Canberra Message-ID: <trinity-11ecd798-3177-4f2c-8f38-140493210fe1-1513649994492@3c-app-mailcom-lxa01>
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>Sid; Mon Dec 18 22:09:36 UTC 2017 > Canberra is an audio application for playing simple sounds like "DING!". > For playing sound, I am convinced that graphical dependencies for audio/libcanberra and audio/libcanberra-gtk3 aren't needed: x11-toolkits/gtk30, x11-toolkits/gtk20, accessibility/atk. > According to Freshports, both libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3 refer to the file libcanberra-0.30.tar.xz of the same SHA256 and size. > The difference between these two is one pulls in gtk3 as well. > Pango is for left to right text, perhaps for displaying audio information to the user. > Its description is its "code is platform- and toolkit-independent." > For it to display a simple banner or visual it shouldn't require heavy graphical dependencies. > Also, Pango should be made into an option for Canberra, so it can definitely be compiled without atk, gtk30 or gtk20. > Pango doesn't require these three graphical dependencies, so Canberra especially shouldn't. > USE_GNOME should also be a Makefile option in ports that are only about sound (libraries, applications, audio server components) and not graphics. libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3 should be replaced with audio/freedesktop-sound-theme. Pango appears to be a different implementation of Bango, which is not in ports, but here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bango/.
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