On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In this situation, we should go with a case by case approach. If > adding pulseaudio support to a package doesn't force the use of a > pulseaudio setup, then we build with it and add a pulseaudio > optdepends (or depends as required). In cases like gnome-media, we > provide a pulse and non-pulse version of the package. Having both of > these versions in extra would enable us to use split PKGBUILD to build > them. So it will add no extra work for you. > > Of course, we have to wait what the other devs have to say. IIRC the > past pulseaudio discussions, the main stumbling block (I don't recall > other issues) was that no dev wanted to maintain it. As you are > interested in it and with the jr dev scheme, that issue seem to be > resolved. I *am* interested in getting pulseaudio into [extra], and created a more detailed plan of what to do: http://gist.github.com/444917 Any comments are welcome. I am willing to apply as a junior dev to get this done, should it be approved.
