applications which depend on esound

With alsa 1.0.9rc3, dmix is enabled by default and it works (with gstreamer too). There are several applications which depend on esound which seems weird, as I thought these use gstreamer: libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) nautilus-2.10.0-3.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) gnome-media-2.10.0-2.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) gok-1.0.3-1.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) control-center-2.10.0-4.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) smpeg-0.4.4-9.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) libgnome-2.10.0-2.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) gnome-session-2.10.0-2.i386 esound >= 1:0.2.27 is needed by (installed) libgnomeui-2.10.0-1.i386 Should I file upstream bugs for these to remove direct esound depencies and require only gstreamer? These depencies seem ok to me until esound is dropped, as these are sound systems: libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) arts-1.4.0-1.i386 libesd.so.0 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-5.i386 Note1: alsa-lib 1.0.9rc3 will be in updates soon, now only at http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa-lib/ Note2: dmix doesn't solve "sound over network" problem. This still requires a sound server (e.g. MAS, Jack, esd), but the sound server can be implemented at gstreamer framework level, not application level. -- Marius Andreiana