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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 p=
cm
> >> 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 wa=
nt
> > 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).