[readding the list] 22.03.2016 05:56, Ahmed S. Darwish пиÑ?еÑ?: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:01:14AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > Alexander mentioned the SteamOS case, where "they don't link > statically, but have a 'known-good' copy of the library packaged > and put into LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and it may be next to impossible to > explain to the users how to upgrade it." It is about the standalone Steam client, not SteamOS... > > I'm sure though that even if they have a 'known-good' copy, they > keep the daemon version in-sync with the library version? I can't > think of any sane reason not to do so.. So they don't. > Anyway, if that case is indeed problematic, maybe we can lobby > them a bit to do a proper distribution of PA? If anyone has some > contacts, I'll be glad to open a communication channel.. It is impossible. They connect to a distribution-provided daemon. So all we could reasonably do is to ask them to rely on the system-installed libpulse (including the 32-bit version). Also, I have performed some research on games available via gog.com or in the past Humble Bundles that have a native Linux version. It seems that games that bundle libpulse are rare there, if they exist there at all (0 copies of libpulse found in 12 randomly chosen games), which is a good news. -- Alexander E. Patrakov
