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Make libcanberra optional

Adrian Ratiu requested to merge adirat/pavucontrol:master into master

libcanberra is an old abandoned project whose last release was well over a decade ago, despite getting some few fixes on its master branch since then, which are unreleased.

My problem with libcanberra is that it can't be built on pure wayland systems (no X11 headers) which are becoming more common nowadays.

It is the only thing keeping pavucontrol tied to X11, all other dependencies (eg gtk+) build fine on pure wayland.

Since canberra is not a core part of the project, let's make it optional so pavucontrol can build & work on pure wayland systems.

Ideally in the future libcanberra can be replaced with something else, however I don't have the bandwidth to take this on for now, so I'm just making it optional.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu adrian.ratiu@collabora.com

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