On Sep 24, 2019, at 11:19, Gijs Vermeulen wrote:
> The dependency on gstreamer plugins has recently grown in Wine.
I haven't updated the wine ports in months, so I don't think anything has
happened there recently...
> When installing -good I noticed it has pulseaudio as a default variant.
> Looking at the portfile I couldn't find a reason why. Building with
> -pulseaudio works fine for me.
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this decision? Using/requiring pulseaudio
> seems counterproductive to me.
It looks like the variant was added 5 years ago:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/be8824094e6c33c603c905ce127960eb878475f6
Prior to that point, pulseaudio support was unconditionally enabled. There was
no way for a user to disable it. Adding the variant provided a way for users to
disable it. Leaving it enabled by default ensured that users who had relied on
pulseaudio support were not suddenly without it. In MacPorts, we often err on
the side of enabling more features, since that simplifies dependency management
and usually results in happier users.
Why do you believe defaulting to enabling pulseaudio support is bad? Why is
simply installing the port without the pulseaudio variant, if you don't want
those features, not acceptable?
I am not especially familiar with this software, so the answer may be obvious
to someone who is.
