Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> Wouldn’t that be a better solution than to add the pulseaudio package to >> the inputs wherever possible? > > Dunno. It seems to me that applications that are PA-aware can have > better integration, like have their name shown in pavucontrol and > similar interfaces, which is quite useful.
I take your word for it. I haven’t noticed. > There are also technical complications: alsa-lib must be able to find > its PulseAudio plug-in (currently we don’t build it since alsa-lib would > depend on PulseAudio), and it must be one that can actually be dlopened > by every process out there (linked against the same libc, etc.) Hmm, that does sound hairy. ~~ Ricardo