John Haxby wrote: > Erik Slagter wrote: >> As imho pulseaudio doesn't add significant functionality if you're not >> using remote (over the network) audio, you'd be better off without it, >> i.e. remove all pulseaudio packages alltogether. > > That must be a different pulseaudio to the one I'm using then. The > per-application mixer (pavucontrol) is very useful and being able to > move a running stream from the normal output to the USB soundcard I've > just plugged iis extremely cool (yes, I know I could just restart > mplayer and tell it to use the different soundcard). Sure, if you have > either very simple (one soundcard, one well-behaved app) or very complex > (jack) requirements then pulseaudio isn't going to help, but for > anything in between it's way in advance of anything we've had before. For most people it's overkill, they want an audio device that "just works", without hassle. I don't think it was a good idea to make it default in F8, that's all. Of course I don't object to including the package at all.
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