Hello everyone,

after successfully proposing making io-uring global I will propose
another global USE flag: sndio.

As of right how 19 packages would use it[1] and only two of them
(waybar & scrummvm) provide details on what it provides exactly.

I think the generic descroption like
"Enable support for the <pkg>media-sound/sndio</pkg backend"
is good.

It could be noted somewhere that the backend supports both
audio and MIDI but the user is one `emerge --search sndio`
away from learning that if they wish.

What do you think about it?

Kind regards
Filip Kobierski

[1]: https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/sndio

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profiles/use.desc | 1 +
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diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
index 36468b321dd..18ca3828786 100644
--- a/profiles/use.desc
+++ b/profiles/use.desc
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ smartcard - Enable smartcard support
smp - Enable support for multiprocessors or multicore systems
snappy - Enable support for Snappy compression (as implemented in app-arch/snappy)
sndfile - Add support for libsndfile
+sndio - Add support for OpenBSD's sndio audio & MIDI backend
snmp - Add support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available
soap - Add support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
sockets - Add support for tcp/ip sockets
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2.45.3

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Hi all,

as it has been over a month since my initial RFC and I have recieved no responses I have decided to prepare the patches.
My first idea was for the use.desc to be
"Enable support for the sndio backend"
but looking at it now I thought I can do better so I came up with
"Add support for OpenBSD's sndio audio & MIDI backend".

It not only specifies that sndio supports MIDI but also points out that
the project is OpenBSD's which I think is a nice touch since otherwise
a "the" should preceed the word.

Filip Kobierski (2):
profiles: Add a global USE=sndio
*/*: remove generic USE=sndio

games-emulation/pcsx2/metadata.xml | 1 -
mail-client/thunderbird/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-libs/cubeb/metadata.xml | 3 ---
media-libs/libao/metadata.xml | 3 ---
media-libs/libsdl2/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-libs/openal/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/cava/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/cmus/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/moc/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/mpd/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/sox/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/wildmidi/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-video/ffmpeg/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-video/mpv/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-video/obs-studio/metadata.xml | 1 -
profiles/use.desc | 1 +
www-client/firefox/metadata.xml | 1 -
xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer/metadata.xml | 3 ---
18 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-)

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Hi all,

no one has responded to my proposal for yet another month so I am
bumping this again.

I still think this is a worthy change.

~~~~
Kind regards
Filip Kobierski


On Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 at 11:48, Filip Kobierski <fkobi@pm.me> wrote:

Hi all,

as it has been over a month since my initial RFC and I have recieved no responses I have decided to prepare the patches.
My first idea was for the use.desc to be
"Enable support for the sndio backend"
but looking at it now I thought I can do better so I came up with
"Add support for OpenBSD's sndio audio & MIDI backend".

It not only specifies that sndio supports MIDI but also points out that
the project is OpenBSD's which I think is a nice touch since otherwise
a "the" should preceed the word.

Filip Kobierski (2):
profiles: Add a global USE=sndio
/: remove generic USE=sndio

games-emulation/pcsx2/metadata.xml | 1 -
mail-client/thunderbird/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-libs/cubeb/metadata.xml | 3 ---
media-libs/libao/metadata.xml | 3 ---
media-libs/libsdl2/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-libs/openal/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/cava/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/cmus/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/moc/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/mpd/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/sox/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-sound/wildmidi/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-video/ffmpeg/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-video/mpv/metadata.xml | 1 -
media-video/obs-studio/metadata.xml | 1 -
profiles/use.desc | 1 +
www-client/firefox/metadata.xml | 1 -
xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer/metadata.xml | 3 ---
18 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-)

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