[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

[Jan Steffens]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Mauro Santos
<registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, vlc seems to work fine if pulse is not present and vlc was
> compiled with pulse support, but I maybe have done something wrong when
> testing that, if pulse got into [extra] it may be worth a shot getting
> vlc to support it "out of the box". However it seems a lot of other
> programs will fail miserably in the same scenario or try to use pulse as
> default which would upset many users I guess.
>
> Also there is the case of some programs pulling jack when the user
> doesn't need it (it just stays put though and doesn't get in the way),
> so if pulse was in [extra] it might be possible to include that too for
> vlc as an "optdepend". As always, some users wouldn't mind while others
> would get really upset about that if it was a "depend".

One of the problems of PulseAudio is that it pretty much becomes the
default as soon as
you install it. So I'm trying to avoid that, offering separate
packages where needed.