Title: PulseEffects-5+ are now media-sound/easyeffects Author: Marek Szuba Posted: 2021-07-16 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseeffects Since version 5.0.0, media-sound/pulseeffects have explicitly required media-video/pipewire rather than just a PulseAudio client (i.e. either PipeWire or plain media-sound/pulseaudio). Following up on this change, upstream has decided to rename the project to EasyEffects starting with version 6.0.0. Gentoo will follow the upstream renaming but in a slightly different fashion: - versions older than 5.0.0, i.e. ones not depending on media-video/pipewire, will continue to use the name media-sound/pulseeffects; - versions: 5.0.0 and newer, i.e. all requiring media-video/pipewire, will be available as media-sound/easyeffects. media-sound/easyeffects is already available in the tree, and the remaining PipeWire-dependent versions of media-sound/pulseeffects will be removed on 2021-07-23. Therefore, PipeWire users of media-sound/pulseeffects should switch to media-sound/easyeffects by deselecting the old package and installing the new one, e.g. emerge --deselect media-sound/pulseeffects emerge media-sound/easyeffects No action is required of media-sound/pulseeffects users who either use PulseAudio exclusively or wish to retain the ability to use this package with both PulseAudio and PipeWire.