Bugzilla Automation <bugzi...@freebsd.org> has asked freebsd-desktop (Team) <desk...@freebsd.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 276121: audio/pulseaudio: enable JACK by default https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276121
--- Description --- i realise there's always a compromise on what options a port should enable by default, but in this case, i think there's a significant benefit to enabling JACK by default, because it allows PulseAudio to act as a front-end to JACK for desktop users. my situation is this: i have an audio interface in OSS, and i use that as the JACK input and output device, in realtime, bitperfect mode, with VCHANs disabled. this means i don't want anything else (including pulseaudio) to attempt to open the OSS device. this is so i can use the audio device via JACK in an audio application like audio/ardour. but i also want to run normal desktop applications, like Firefox, mpv, etc., which already have PulseAudio support. by far the easiest way for me to do this is to run PulseAudio with the JACK sink/source modules, which causes everything to work normally and without any modifications. i believe this kind of configuration would be fairly common for anyone interesting in doing audio production on FreeBSD. enabling JACK by default means i can do all this with the binary packages, instead of having to build pulseaudio from source.
