removing esd - seems possible now?

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:10:23 +1200, David Mohring <heretic at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:39 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > Looks like infrastructure for removing esd is in place.
> > The following prevent it:
> 
> The esound demon ESD, clunky as it, is still currently the best way to
> serve sound to remote X11/LTSP terminals. [...]

This should not prevent us from removing dependencies on ESD, so that
we do not have to have it installed unconditionally. The vast majority of
users do not need it. Currently, gnome-libs and libgnomeui depend on esound.
David wants to remove it completely, which may be extreme.

-- Pete