On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com> wrote:
In this situation, we should go with a case by case approach. If adding pulseaudio support to a package doesn't force the use of a pulseaudio setup, then we build with it and add a pulseaudio optdepends (or depends as required). In cases like gnome-media, we provide a pulse and non-pulse version of the package. Having both of these versions in extra would enable us to use split PKGBUILD to build them. So it will add no extra work for you.
Of course, we have to wait what the other devs have to say. IIRC the past pulseaudio discussions, the main stumbling block (I don't recall other issues) was that no dev wanted to maintain it. As you are interested in it and with the jr dev scheme, that issue seem to be resolved.
I *am* interested in getting pulseaudio into [extra], and created a more detailed plan of what to do: http://gist.github.com/444917 Any comments are welcome. I am willing to apply as a junior dev to get this done, should it be approved.