On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > > Hello, William. > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:59:54PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any > > > > scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike > > > > udev...) > > > > Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo > > > users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough > > > to be able to do that *easily* whilst keeping packages they want, > > > especially Gnome ones! > > > I"m not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is > > coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you > > will have to install it if you want newer Gnome. > > Any idea why? Even on systems which lack audio entirely? > > I hate this recent phenomenom, where disparate entities are bundled > together ever more tightly, reducing users' choice. > > > William > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >
Not that it likely affects a lot of people, but pulseaudio can transmit sound over the network to other pulseaudio servers -- a possible use case I can think of are media centers, though I'm sure there's more. There's even a guy streaming audio from his Android phone to another computer [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ -- Alecks Gates
