On 12/18/2017 12:47 PM, KatolaZ wrote:
> 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
>
KatolaZ :
What about Twinkle instead of skypeforlinux?
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