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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2022-07-28-pipewire-sound-server: add item
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:19:47
Message-Id: C87E1F22-93F8-4679-BD3E-84B763D7252B@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] 2022-07-28-pipewire-sound-server: add item by Madhu
1 > On 27 Jul 2022, at 07:18, Madhu <enometh@××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >>>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022, Sam James wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> +2. To use PulseAudio's daemon for sound, users should disable
7 >>> USE=sound-server for PipeWire, + enable USE=daemon on
8 >>> media-sound/pulseaudio, and add media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon to
9 >>> their world file:
10 >>
11 >> "The text body should be wrapped at 72 characters."
12 >> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0042.html#news-item-body
13 >
14 > This is unecessarily restrictive to force the user to choose between
15 > pipewire and pulseaudio for the sound server. It is possible (I am
16 > running it now), and should be possible for gentoo to have both
17 > installed simultaneously and run one or the other at any given time,
18 > through configuration files.
19 >
20 > [I think the only patch that is required is for
21 > alsa-plugins/pulse/conf_pulse.c: (conf_pulse_hook_load_if_running)
22 > which can be taught to check if the pipewire daemon is running and
23 > quit that particular module. but it is not pipewire aware yet]
24 >
25
26 Patches welcome but this is the status quo and documenting the status
27 quo is important.
28
29 But... making it easy to choose one or the other is important.
30
31 Your described method doesn't sound like it would be deterministic
32 or predictable.

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