Re: [proaudio] Hello and: do I need the alsa USE-flag?

[Allan Klinbail <sonofzev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi 

Using alsa is pretty necessary, I believe even jack needs that flag to
know what driver it will be interfacing. Using the jack use flag will
not necessarily force jack or death. 

You can add in "-oss -arts -esd) to reduce the build time. 

cheers

Allan 


On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 20:46 +0100, Philipp Ammann wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> To introduce myself: I'm a student from Austria (no, not Australia ;) 
> who likes Gentoo and does a bit of home-recording :) I want to get a bit 
> more serious and therefore I currently re-set up my 'studio'. (If you 
> can call it one.)
> This first problem (although it isn't really one but I think it's worth 
> a question) I ran into is this:
> 
> Is USE="alsa" really needed? Shouldn't it be enough to compile JACK with 
> alsa-support and have a global USE="jack" in make.conf and thus, having 
> the entire system forced into JACK-or-death?
> 
> Regards,
> Philipp
>