That's why i'm using OSS for that kind of matters. 2009/8/11 Jeff Horelick <jdhore1@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
There's a release of GNOME 2.27.90 scheduled for this week, which means that GNOME will enter a code freeze. This is the point where I usually pick up packaging the next major version.
For GNOME 2.27/28, some things will change in the distribution: - DeviceKit-Disks (new package) - PolicyKit 1.0 replacing 0.9 - PulseAudio (new package) - Esound
Then there's PulseAudio. Though I still don't feel the need for this one on the systems I own, a lot of users have requested this. PA has matured a lot in the meanwhile, and PA is more than just an ordinary ESD replacement.
Another issue is ESD. This package is not really maintained upstream anymore, and I don't think it makes sense to have two sound servers as dependency for one desktop. Given the fact that Fedora disables esound support since 2.23.4, I think it won't be a problem to remove it from the dependency chain. Esound will stay in the repositories, but won't be used by GNOME as sound server anymore.
I'm personally unhappy that PulseAudio will be my only sound system choice if i use GNOME. Yes, i realize that PulseAudio has improved massively in the past year or so, but it still breaks quite a few apps and in my experience, skips/stutters more than you want unless you're using a realtime kernel.
I really hope PulseAudio will be a optdepend or a actual part of the gnome or gnome-extra groups so that if someone decides they don't want it, they don't have to use it.