On 06/19/2010 03:46 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > 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. Well, vlc seems to work fine if pulse is not present and vlc was compiled with pulse support, but I maybe have done something wrong when testing that, if pulse got into [extra] it may be worth a shot getting vlc to support it "out of the box". However it seems a lot of other programs will fail miserably in the same scenario or try to use pulse as default which would upset many users I guess. Also there is the case of some programs pulling jack when the user doesn't need it (it just stays put though and doesn't get in the way), so if pulse was in [extra] it might be possible to include that too for vlc as an "optdepend". As always, some users wouldn't mind while others would get really upset about that if it was a "depend". -- Mauro Santos
