On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Audiodef<
damien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem now. Masking this or that didn't help me,
> either. If anyone finds a solution or comes up with an ebuild, I'd be
> interested in hearing about it.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [proaudio] midi use flag and alsa-libs
> From: Dominique Michel <
dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, August 03, 2009 1:47 am
> To:
proaudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:36:17 +0200,
> Dominique Michel <
dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>> Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:12:27 +0200,
>> Dominique Michel <
dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>> > Le Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:41:13 -0500,
>> > Matt Henley <
nwmatt@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>> >
>> > > I tried to update my system yesterday and now emerge just returns
>> > > errors.
>> > > After a bit of checking it appears that a large number of my packages
>> > > (including pro-audio overlay) depend on the midi use option in
>> > > alsa-libs.
>> > > This was removed per the change log because of bug #272659. Do you
>> > > have
>> > > any suggestions on how I should get my system stable as I have a lot
>> > > if
>> > > not most of the packages installed that require alsa-libs be installed
>> > > with the midi use flag? Also, is the alsa midi functionality now part
>> > > of
>> > > alsa without the flag or was that functionality removed?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for any information.
>> > >
>> > > Matt
>> >
>> > Hi Matt,
>> >
>> > Thanks for reporting. Try to update the overlay. I masked the just
>> > unmasked
>> > ALSA packages.
>> >
>>
>> Fan, it doesn't work! Gentoo removed the alsa-*-1.0.20. To downgrade to
>> 1.0.19 will arm more.
>
> It will do nothing for this issue because they dropped the midi flag from
> all
> their alsa versions.
>
>> I unmasked them again.
>>
>> I have no solution for now beside to report all the broken packages to
>> their
>> respective overlays.
>>
>>
>> > According to the old gentoo packages.mask, it is an optional hack. I
>> > don't
>> > know what it mean, but the midi packages in gentoo are working in any
>> > cases.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Dominique
>> >
>>
>>
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