Re: skype is really stale

[clayton <langexnet%bbn.cn@localhost>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:33:03 -0700
jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:

> On Jan 11,  3:32am, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> }
> } clayton wrote:
> } ...
> } > {2} skype&
> } > {3} ./skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2:
> } > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> } 
> } 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.

Until a comparable open source alternative shows up, I bet I am not the
only person who considers Skype an essential desktop tool. Being stuck
at 1.2 won't fly for very long.

Clayton