Subject: Re: skype is really stale
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/22/2007 19:54:38
jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
> } At a wild guess try installing the wip/alsa-lib package. If this fixes
> } your issue a mail to reed@ asking for it to be imported and a DEPENDS
> } added would seem like a logical move.
>
> The problem is that we don't have ALSA support in the kernel. I
> had previously looked at updating Skype, but got caught by this point,
> so I was suprised that the update was made.
I believe that is also the problem with using the latest flavor of
flash plugin.
I suspect adding the correct emulation foo isn't that hard a job, but
someone motivated would have to actually *do* it...
Perry