From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: libcanberra: Add propagated-input. Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:06:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87oaqxqn2h.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2eLQ-0001au-Aa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:06:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2eLL-0003eV-Dq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:06:40 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:53612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2eLL-0003eO-7Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:06:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:14:37 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Federico Beffa skribis: > I propose to make sound-theme-freedesktop a propagated input of > libcanberra. This is because, according to the XDG sound theme > specification, those event sounds should always be present and used as > fall-back in case other sounds are not present. > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/ That=E2=80=99s not the right fix, I think. For instance, if Evince is inst= alled in a profile, but libcanberra itself is not in the profile, then the sound theme is not pulled and ends up not being used. Would it be possible, instead, to patch libcanberra to refer to the sound-theme directory as its fallback? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.