[Bug 195221] Review Request: pulseaudio: Improved Linux sound server

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Summary: Review Request: pulseaudio: Improved Linux sound server


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195221


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------- Additional Comments From drzeus-bugzilla at drzeus.cx  2006-08-22 16:14 EST -------
0. It was Toshio that did those additions. The Red Hat libtool was added to
avoid getting a RPATH on x86_64.

1. I'm blisfully unaware to the the available macros. I'll get that into the
next revision, thanks. :)

2. Yes and no, we'll have a look, package by package:

pulseaudio-lib-glib2:
This is for GLib 2 applications that want to easily integrate with the
PulseAudio client lib. As such, they'll have a dependency on the .so file in
this package and everything will be peachy.

pulseaudio-lib-zeroconf:
This is similar as it provides a shared object for automatically finding
PulseAudio servers and connecting to them. It does, however, also contain a
command line tool that might be of interest to the users. But as apt and yum can
fetch based on knowing that tools name (pabrowse), users should be able to pull
it in without much trouble.

pulseaudio-module-alsa:
Failure to have this package will result in error messages about failing to load
modules, provided their configuration states that the ALSA modules should be loaded.
As ALSA is the standard API, I suppose we could remove this subpackage.

pulseaudio-module-lirc:
Same result here. This module provides nothing as far as clients are concerned
(it allows you to directly control the server via IR), so there will be an
obvious error for those trying to use the function without having the package.

pulseaudio-module-x11:
This is more subtle from a user's point of view. This module provides some extra
authentication features (allows you to set the security cookie as a X11
property). I am a strong proponent of keeping this subpackage though as X11 can
be a big dependency.

pulseaudio-module-zeroconf:
This is a server-side feature and will therefore result in complaints about
missing modules when trying to use it without the package.


So I can accept removing the ALSA subpackage, but the others should stay.

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