[SOLVED] PIPEWIRE setup clarifications

[Ja.KooLit]

Hey guys,

so according to pipewire wiki

When using PipeWire as a replacement for the PulseAudio sound server:

Specify the -daemon USE flag on media-sound/pulseaudio, and ensure media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon is not installed. This is necessary to avoid issues resulting from running more than one sound server.
Ensure media-libs/libpulse is installed, which will allow PipeWire to emulate a PulseAudio sound server. Not many applications currently support PipeWire's native API.
Ensure the pulseaudio USE flag is still set in make.conf.

Note that, although the above will remove the need for the media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon package, the media-sound/pulseaudio package will still need to be installed, as it provides the libraries for any software that uses PulseAudio for audio output.

But if I enable pulseaudio on make.conf pulseaudio-daemon is being pulled, and pulseaudio daemon use are being requested to add

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# required by gui-apps/waybar-0.9.17-r1::gentoo[pulseaudio]
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
>=media-sound/pulseaudio-16.1 daemon

Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No]

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[blocks B      ] media-video/pipewire[sound-server(+)] ("media-video/pipewire[sound-server(+)]" is soft blocking media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1-r7)
[blocks B      ] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon ("media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon" is soft blocking media-video/pipewire-0.3.69)

[trilithium]

The wiki and your configuration is correct, looks like the issue is with the ui-apps/waybar-0.9.17-r1 ebuild which specifies media-sound/pulseaudio[daemon] as a runtime dependency. I am not familiar with waybar so I do not know if it actually relies on the pulseaudio daemon but that is what the ebuild says.

[grknight]

I suggest disabling the pulseaudio USE for gui-apps/waybar alone (package.use) but also enable the pipewire USE for it as well

[Ja.KooLit]

Thanks guys for your reply.

I disable now pulseaudio on waybar. Luckily, there is a wireplumber module for waybar...

Oh somebody submit a bug already

https://bugs.gentoo.org/904165