On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 06:35 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 15 November 2010 04:11, Jan Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the problems of PulseAudio is that it pretty much becomes the > > default as > > soon as you install it: > > - The client library will start the server if it's not running. > > - pulseaudio will install .desktop files that autostart the server together > > with Gnome or KDE. > > > > Splitting libpulse would prevent that, but I believe we still need to test > > on a per-application basis whether we can enable PulseAudio support (with a > > dependency on libpulse) without breaking fallback to ALSA on systems without > > pulseaudio. > > > > Some packages (like sdl and openal) look for libpulse dynamically and will > > still work even though the lib is missing, so they only need an optional > > dependency. > > A tentative repo to test this out wouldn't be a bad idea, IMO.
AFAIK that repo was called "community". As for splitting up packages for pulse support: whenever depending on libpulse still keeps pulseaudio support optional, I'd rather depend on libpulse than split the package itself.
