On 9 October 2011 13:34, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've just pushed some changes that disable OSS sound under PulseAudio >>> sound profile. >>> >>> If you want to use OSS apps with PulseAudio, please install "ossp" >>> package which I've also just submitted. >>> >>> I think ultimately we'll disable ALSA OSS emulation completely and use >>> ossp in both PA and non-PA modes but I hear that the non-PA usage isn't >>> quite as nice, so I'm holding off doing this just yet. >> >> then task-pa should suggests ossp... > > I'm undecided about this. I'm not sure if the default setup should > include OSS sound support or not. Perhaps it would be better left as > something that users install if they need it.
We'd support for OSS, I don't see any reason to drop that support gratuitously > As we'll eventually have to go through all the packages that require > soundwrapper, perhaps we could either: > > a) Replace the soundwrapper require with a ossp require. > b) Patch soundwrapper such that it's a noop if osspd is running and make > it require ossp. > > The latter would mean less churn on packages, but it's arguably just > delaying the inevitable work of doing it eventually. Or both
