Filip Kobierski posted on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:46:46 +0000 as excerpted: > I like the idea very much and have thought about it myself for quite > some time before.
Given that the OP was anti-pipewire (calling it "obnoxious"), here's an upvote for the idea from a cautiously pro-pipewire gentooer, as making pipewire a global USE should benefit everyone, those who want it and those who don't, alike. Though unfortunately a global USE does seem to discourage more descriptive local USE descriptions where appropriate. (Ex: minimal: A global USE flag with widely differing per-package effects such that that it's not really appropriate to enable globally, yet too many IUSE=minimal packages default to the generic global description and don't say what minimal actually does for that package. One must read the ebuild to find out. :^( ) [TLDR folks stop here.] FWIW I recently flipped on both pipewire and pulseaudio (to use via pipewire), from a pure alsa system previously. I skipped pulse itself entirely as while I wasn't "politically opposed" I simply didn't see it as worth the trouble, and initially skipped pipewire too, until it had time to mature somewhat. While I did have a bit of alsa -> pipewire migration trouble I found it worth it, here. For pipewire effects toys I highly recommend easyeffects! =:^) (Tho easyeffects upstream seems to be moving much faster than in-tree which is behind a number of releases and -9999 is broken now as it hasn't kept up with upstream dependency changes, for discussion and the working- with-caveats -9999 I'm using here see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968468 .) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
