With alsa 1.0.9 in development repository and dmix enabled by default, there's no need to require esd. gstreamer uses alsa by default and it works. GNOME sound preferences capplet doesn't allow events sounds without checking Sound server checkbox, I assume only because the UI design. Please remove this option and control-center's depency of libesd.so Reference: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-April/msg00709.html (note that issues 1 and 2 from that email are solved now) Thanks
The playback code uses esd, so it needs to be running. In F7, we should have pulse running, so the dependency wouldn't be on esound anymore, but on Pulse directly.
the dependency is actually on /usr/bin/esd nowadays, which is provided by either esound or pulseaudio-esound-compat
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The dependency is gone nowadays