Re: [PATCH] Add Bluetooth support to Pulseaudio.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus (2016-05-14 12:43 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Hello Guix,
>>
>> this patch adds Bluetooth support to pulseaudio.  (Since bluez5 there
>> is no native support for the ALSA backend any more.)  This adds very
>> little to the pulseaudio closure as you can see below.
>>
>> Note that this depends on the previous patch adding SBC.
>>
>> More than 100 packages would need to be rebuilt.  Among those are big
>> packages like GNOME, Blender, and conkeror.  Should I push this to
>> core-updates then?
>
> Conkeror is not the big one; it's a rather small wrapper around icecat
> (in our case).  I don't know why "guix refresh -l pulseaudio" shows
> conkeror and not icecat, but icecat is a really big and important one,
> so I think it's better to commit this to core-updates, indeed.  Although
> ISTR Ludovic told that core-updates is only for the real core packages
> (that rebuild the whole world).

I guess we could have a “pulseaudio-update” branch then.

> BTW do you still have problems with using guix repo through ssh?  I do,
> I mean I can't push or fetch.  And as I see that other people commit to
> the guix repo, I begin to think that it's only me who have this problem.

I still have problems with it with that so I haven’t yet pushed anything
for about one week.

~~ Ricardo