[K12OSN] More feedback on Fedora 10 + LTSP

[David Hopkins]

>> yep, there is a reason that CentOS/RHEL exists.  I would prefer to
>> stay with CentOS but I have to resolve sound (talk about beating a
>> dead horse issue) and with LTSP5 I have to admit that sound 'just
>> works' in all the apps I have to have (except for Audacity but I've
>> found some documentation that implies it can be made to work).
>
> Load up the EPEL repo and install pulsaudio. That will let flash sound
> work again with flash > v9 . That change clobbered everybody.
>

A late reply on this part but while I can load up the EPEL repo and
install MOST of the pulseaudio rpm's cleanly, I can't get
pulseaudio-compat-esound to install as a dependency with esound is
detected.  It seems that all of gnome (and other packages) requires
esound. If I use "rpm -e --nodeps ..." to remove esound and then
install pulseaudio-esound-compat, it is then impossible to log onto
the system with a gnome session. The error message is that libesd.so
isn't found by gnome session and the session immediately exits.
Googling reveals that apparently this has been an issue for a bit.
Re-installing esound allows users to log back in again (which
automatically uninstalls pulseaudio-esound-compat)

So, how do I cleanly uninstall esound?  I could just let the system
uninstall every package with a dependency and then re-install all of
them but that is a daunting proposition.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins