Re: [arch-dev-public] PulseAudio in [extra]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 06:35 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:

On 15 November 2010 04:11, Jan Steffens wrote:

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One of the problems of PulseAudio is that it pretty much becomes the default as soon as you install it: - The client library will start the server if it's not running. - pulseaudio will install .desktop files that autostart the server together with Gnome or KDE.

Splitting libpulse would prevent that, but I believe we still need to test on a per-application basis whether we can enable PulseAudio support (with a dependency on libpulse) without breaking fallback to ALSA on systems without pulseaudio.

Some packages (like sdl and openal) look for libpulse dynamically and will still work even though the lib is missing, so they only need an optional dependency.

A tentative repo to test this out wouldn't be a bad idea, IMO.

AFAIK that repo was called "community". As for splitting up packages for pulse support: whenever depending on libpulse still keeps pulseaudio support optional, I'd rather depend on libpulse than split the package itself.