From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: PulseAudio & ALSA Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:45:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1s5v9pk.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87h9ih4l8n.fsf@gnu.org> <874megs2w4.fsf@gnu.org> <87twmcur0y.fsf@elephly.net> <874mec6jau.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTG6s-0002Bm-MM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:46:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTG6r-0001mG-TL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:46:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <874mec6jau.fsf_-_@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: >> Wouldn’t that be a better solution than to add the pulseaudio package to >> the inputs wherever possible? > > Dunno. It seems to me that applications that are PA-aware can have > better integration, like have their name shown in pavucontrol and > similar interfaces, which is quite useful. I take your word for it. I haven’t noticed. > There are also technical complications: alsa-lib must be able to find > its PulseAudio plug-in (currently we don’t build it since alsa-lib would > depend on PulseAudio), and it must be one that can actually be dlopened > by every process out there (linked against the same libc, etc.) Hmm, that does sound hairy. ~~ Ricardo