I was surprised to find that skype now has the pulseaudio flag set as a default. Well, that didn't really surprise me, but what did is that after I unset the pulseaudio flag and emerged skype-4.3.0.37, audio in skype no longer works. :-/
The skype website says that alsa is no longer supported without pulseaudio in their freshly cut Microsoft-owned code. Why is then the pulseaudio flag provided in portage, if without audio skype would lose its core functionality - i.e. making voice calls? I guess someone may only use it for IM chat, but that I would think is an edge use case. Most people I know would use it for voice and perhaps video calls. In any case, should I install pulseaudio? So far I had not missed it in my world to manage my audio needs. Looking at the wiki page: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio it seems awfully complicated to me, for something which for my purposes would be just a new 'alsamixer'. :p Are you using PA and how would you suggest I go about installing and configuring it (if I must) for minimal interference with my audio usage? -- Regards, Mick
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