Le jeudi 25 novembre 2010 16:15:33, Jan Steffens a écrit : > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jan Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to propose moving support for the PulseAudio sound server > > into Arch Linux proper. This would also be in preparation for the > > eventual arrival of Gnome 3, since it will be unlikely we can > > effectively maintain the needed GStreamer patch any more. > > > > To that effect I have created a plan: > > > > --- > > > > To provide PulseAudio in [extra]... > > > > Move the following packages from [community] to [extra]: > > - libasyncns > > - rtkit > > - pulseaudio (split into pulseaudio and libpulse) > > - alsa-plugins > > - pulseaudio-alsa > > Configuration package, contains /etc/asound.conf > > depends on pulseaudio, alsa-plugins > > - pavucontrol > > - paprefs > > - pulseaudio-mixer-applet > > - ossp > > provides osspd OSS emulator > > > > Rebuild the following packages with PulseAudio support: > > - sdl (sdl-pulse in AUR) > > - openal (openal-pulse in AUR) > > - libgstreamer0.10-good > > split gstreamer0.10-pulse (in community) > > - libao > > split libao-pulse (in community) > > - libcanberra > > split libcanberra-pulse (in community) > > will be a split plugin instead of a wholly rebuilt copy > > - gnome-media > > split gnome-media-pulse (in community; rebuilt with --enable-pulse) > > - gnome-settings-daemon > > split gnome-settings-daemon-pulse (in community; rebuilt without > > gstreamer patch) > > > > Provide the following groups: > > - pulseaudio-gnome > > pulseaudio-alsa > > libcanberra-pulse > > gstreamer0.10-pulse > > gnome-media-pulse > > gnome-settings-daemon-pulse > > > > --- > > > > 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. > > > > I would be maintaining split -pulse packages where needed. > > If there are no objections, I would move it from [testing] tomorrow.
At first I was worried about KDE, so I tested the new KDE packages in [testing]. A new dependency of phonon install libpulse (the full pulseaudio package is optional). After a little research and some testing I found that this libpulse dependency cannot be optional if we want to enable support for PA in phonon. Since other distributions (at least Debian/Kubuntu and Fedora) are doing something very similar and that the use of PA in phonon is optional (alsa still works as expected), I would say +1 Stéphane
