Packages on which Thunderbird functionality depends!

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 08/24/2010 09:37 AM, mike cloaked wrote:
> For the past week or so I have been battling with a problem that I had
> thought (after some chasing around) was a Thunderbird upstream
> problem. The issue was that selecting Edit->Preferences-> General and
> allowing selection of a xxx.wav file to play for incoming mail did not
> work.
> 
> It turned out that in fact the reason was there were two required
> packages (pulseaudio-esound-compat and esound-libs) that were needed
> for Thunderbird to function with sound and play these sounds.  Whilst
> it would be highly desirable for upstream to move from the now
> obsolete esd sound system to pulse, in the meantime we are stuck with
> thunderbird as it is.  However it took quite a lot of searching to
> find the two packages necessary (which are not installed by default),
> and I wonder if it would be possible to make those two packages a
> dependency for thunderbird so that others don't hit the same bug.
> Certainly an inexperienced Fedora user would most likely not be able
> to resolve this for a standard installed set of packages!
> 
> The upstream bug where this was sorted out is at:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589732
> 
> It seems that for some other distributions the necessary packages are
> there by default.
> 
> Any views on this? Could it be done for f14?
> 


I'm not a Thunderbird maintainer, so I don't know how feasible this is,
but perhaps we could create a subpackage like
'thunderbird-sound-support' that has the appropriate dependencies on it.
Then at least someone doing a yum search on thunderbird would notice
that and assume they probably wanted it (if they're hitting the same issue).

It would then be up to the individual spins whether they want this in
their default package set or not.

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