esound, removal removes 478 packages !

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:49 -0700, stan wrote:
> Will the new version of Fedora be using esound exclusively?

No, it will use PulseAudio.

> What about 
> if I want fine control of the hardware?  How is that done using esound?

It's not. You use ALSA for that.

> Should I open a bugzilla against esound because it won't let me use alsa 
> calls to restrict the sound card to hardware supported rates, or is that 
> futile given the huge dependencies on esound?

It is possible to change the config of the OSS emulation devices using
asoundrc.

> Is there a fork from alsa occurring?

Uh, no.

> Is OSS being revived?

What?! Now you're just talking crazy...

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