I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had pulseaudio removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency. I have set USE="- screencast", because I don't need/want this functionality, as I have done on other systems which nevertheless have had pipewire brought in as a dependency.

# emerge -1aNDv pipewire

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] media-libs/fdk-aac-2.0.2:0/2::gentoo USE="-examples" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 2,819 KiB
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libfreeaptx-0.1.1-r1::gentoo ABI_X86="(64) -32 (- x32)" CPU_FLAGS_X86="-avx2" 28 KiB
[ebuild N ] media-libs/sbc-2.0::gentoo USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 265 KiB
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libldac-2.0.2.3-r1::gentoo ABI_X86="(64) -32 (- x32)" 74 KiB
[ebuild N ] media-video/pipewire-0.3.56:0/0.4::gentoo USE="X bluetooth dbus ssl udev -doc -echo-cancel -extra -gstreamer -jack-client -jack-sdk -lv2 -pipewire-alsa -sound-server (-system-service) -systemd -test -v4l -zeroconf" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 1,813 KiB
[ebuild N ] media-video/wireplumber-0.4.11-r3:0/0.4::gentoo USE="elogind (-system-service) -systemd -test" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-4 -lua5-3" 395 KiB

Total: 6 packages (6 new), Size of downloads: 5,392 KiB


Am I meant to install pipewire manually on this system?
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