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Subject: Re: mumble issues with pulseaudio
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ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> skribis:

> Alex Kost transcribed 0.8K bytes:
>> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2017-04-03 12:08 +0200) wrote:
>>=20
>> > Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> skribis:
>> >
>> >> If the PulseAudio installation shipped with GuixSD is "sane" then it
>> >> will provide a virtual ALSA pcm device and will globally route the pcm
>> >> device called "default" to this virtual PCM device. This device will
>> >> provide stream mixing, etc..
>> >
>> > FWIW I have ~/.asoundrc with:
>> >
>> > pcm.!default {
>> >     type pulse
>> > }
>> >
>> > to =E2=80=9Creroute=E2=80=9D ALSA applications to PulseAudio.
>> >
>> > I=E2=80=99m not sure whether we should do that by default, or install =
this
>> > .asoundrc for newly-created accounts.  I guess some people may not want
>> > it.
>>=20
>> At least I'm one of those people :-)  I even have the following in my
>> .bash_profile to make sure that pulseaudio is never used:
>>=20
>> export AUDIODRIVER=3Dalsa
>> export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=3Dalsa
>>=20
>> --=20
>> Alex
>>=20
>
> I have an idea:
>
> Default to include it.
> We could have a setting which can be defined in the
> (operating-system) to set (profile-creation-asoundrc #f).

I was talking of the account skeletons, i.e., the files that are
automatically installed in the home directory of a newly-created account
(see (gnu system shadow)).  These files can always be modified or
removed by the user afterwards.

Still I understand that choosing a default is always difficult.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.