Using pulseaudio by default

[dragoran]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> dragoran wrote:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> - alsa needs to be configured to use the pulse plugin
>> shouldn't this be the other way round?
>> pulseaudio->alsa ?
>> or did I miss something?
>> or is it something like dmix?
> pulseaudio is using the alsa devices, every other alsa client needs to 
> be redirected
> to go through pulse. The alsa libraries have a plugin framework that 
> make this possible.
>
ok but why redirect apps that uses alsa directly trought pulse?
what is the gain when doing this?
I don't know much about pulseaudio but in case of esd I always preffered 
that a app bypassed esd .