[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

[Jan Steffens]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at 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.