[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

[Chris Brannon]

Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> writes:

*SNIP*
> Any comments are welcome.
>
> I am willing to apply as a junior dev to get this done, should it be approved.

Your plan leaves me with a question.  Here's a quote from that
document:

> TODO:
>   - What about the neccessary kernel changes?
>       1. Blacklist snd-{pcm,mixer,seq}-oss (tto kill off ALSA's OSS
> emulation)
>          
>          This is apparently the common cause of Flash or other applications 
>          hogging the audio device. Also happens when you run ALSA dmix, so
>          it's not specific to PulseAudio.
> 
>       2. Boot with soundcore.preclaim_oss=0 (required for osspd)

How will this affect people who don't wish to run PulseAudio?  Can they
still have their ALSA OSS emulation, or will they need to run PulseAudio
for applications which still use OSS?

-- Chris