Word from Eric Hameleers, one of the main Slackware maintainers (AKA
alienbob):

"...you have to have PA installed because applications are now linking
> against it. What you can still do is configure PA to be an input channel
> for ALSA and leave ALSA to control your hardware.
> But generally speaking I would not recommend that unless you have high
> audio quality standards (being a musician or an audiophile) in which case
> you should look at Jackd anyway instead of just ALSA or PA.
> Note that PA is no longer maintained/developed by Lennart - it is more
> stable and useful than in the past, and not the scary broken software it
> used to be. Something that can also be said for PAM, another stumbling
> block for slackers."
>

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SergioHernandezA/posts/HB7QbNXrqGk

Cheers,
Emiliano.


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Mitt Green <mitt_green@???>
wrote:

> Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>
> >Slackware switched to eudev in order to avoid systemd.
>
> Shame on me not reading the whole thing. Still, systemd is not mentioned (:
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mitt
>
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