On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:34:01PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 16/12/2017 à 11:45, KatolaZ a écrit :
> >the Devuan ASCII sprint will continue through the week-end. Just to
> >let you know that apulse (pulseaudio->alsa compat layer) and surf2
> >(the suckless browser) are now in ASCII. Feel free to give them a try
> >and report any issue.
>
>     apluse is installed in its own place in the hierarchy. It is not
> installed as a replacement for pulseaudio - otherwies it should conflict
> with it.
>
>     Therefore its use is limited to software which is compiled locally, and
> I think it cannot act as a compatibility layer for ready-made packages like
> Skypeforlinux. Skypeforlinux has no sound when pulseaudio isn't install,
> even when apulse is.
>
>     However I'm not sure Skypeforlinux is still usefull since it seems to
> have exactly the same UI as Skypeweb.
>

Hi Didier,

I have no pulseaudio running and skypeforlinux still works (yes, I
need to use it, unfortunately). I don't understand what you mean
"installed in its own place in the hierarchy". apulse is not a
replacement to pulseaudio, just a wrapper to foul apps around to
believe that pulseaudio is running. I don't think we can really
replace deps to pulseaudio with deps to apulse, tbh.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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