[MacPorts] #42986: openal-soft @1.15.1: complains about pulseaudio (@5.0) not being built with capabilities support

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#42986: openal-soft @1.15.1: complains about pulseaudio (@5.0) not being built with
capabilities support
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  Reporter:  egall@…                 |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect                  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal                  |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                   |    Version:  2.2.1
Resolution:                          |   Keywords:
      Port:  openal-soft pulseaudio  |
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Comment (by lubodiakov@…):

 Replying to [comment:4 ryandesign@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:2 lubodiakov@…]:
 > > Adding dependencies for portaudio and pulseaudio has the nasty side
 ...cut for the sake of brevity
 > If pulseaudio support is not thought to be essential to openal-soft, it
 could be made a variant. I would still tend to err on the side of caution
 and enable it by default, but you could disable it if you wanted to avoid
 those dependencies and you don't need the functionality they provide.

 Again thanks for the response.

 I do in general agree with the idea that it's better to include some
 component that might not be absolutely necessary, rather than leaving out
 something useful, especially if there are variants with and without said
 dependency.

 I'll have to look into how to create a variant without pulseaudio since it
 is what depends on Xorg and submit it so it is available later straight
 from the repo. Short of making a variant which does not yet exist, is
 there a way to build openal-soft with no pulseaudio now other than
 commenting out the local portfile crudely like I did?

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