> Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 03:55:00 +0100 > From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] pavucontrol > . . > > But on my normal builds (mostly avoiding Desktop Environments, > although I use a couple of gnome packages and on some machines I use > most of xfce) I do not build pulse. > > Summary: if you build pulse without one of the big two desktop > environments it *might* be useful - but I have no idea. >
Apparently: BlueZ 5 'requires' pulseaudio; whereas BlueZ 4 did not; and much dep-sw is focusing now on 5.x instead of 4.x . (( Which is mainly why Slackware now includes pulseaudio: ---- Ref: http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64 -- " Wed Jan 13 00:01:23 UTC 2016 . . After upgrading to BlueZ 5 recently, everything seemed to be working great, but then it was pointed out that Bluetooth audio was no longer working. The reason was that the newer BlueZ branch had dropped ALSA support and now required PulseAudio. So with some trepidation, we began investigating adding PulseAudio to Slackware. Going back to BlueZ 4 wasn't an option with various dependent projects either having dropped support for it, or considering doing so. After several iterations here refining the foundation packages and recompiling and tweaking other packages to use PulseAudio, it's working well and you'll likely not notice much of a change. But if you're using Bluetooth audio, or needing to direct audio through HDMI, you'll probably find it a lot easier to accomplish that. Best of all, we're finally a modern, relevant Linux distro! ;-) Thanks to Mario Preksavec, Heinz Wiesinger, and Robby Workman for a lot of help and testing. Bug reports, complaints, and threats can go to me. . . " ---- )) rgds, akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
