[arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

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On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 23:02 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 27/11/10 14:51, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> >> Good to see the overwhelming positive lean; is pulse being considered
> >> for an eventual default by chance?
> >
> > Almost nothing is default on Arch...
> 
> Beh you know what I mean :-)
> 
> i.e. "recommeded", only-one-or-the-other packages become PKG/PKG-alsa
> instead of PKG/PKG-pulse, package groups use pulse builds, etc etc...
> or am I off base?
> 
> C Anthony [mobile]

Its a bit similar to asking if compiz will be 'default'. Its not an Arch
decision anyway, what will happen in future is that upstream apps will
either be exclusively pulse or at least prefer pulse. Meaning libpulse
will almost always be pulled in anyway, and at least under gnome a fresh
install would use pulse.

So you should ask Gnome. And the answer is that yes, it will be default
on Gnome. If you do not use Gnome, then only if the apps you pull need
it.