Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 15:46:30 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: chromium@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 216327] www/chromium: Pulseaudio compiled in by default Message-ID: <bug-216327-28929-DGz0PBrgTh@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-216327-28929@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-216327-28929@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D216327 --- Comment #2 from OlivierW <olivierw1+bugzilla-freebsd@hotmail.com> --- Thanks for your answer. If we start adding this pulseaudio bloatware as default in ports, it may one day end in FreeBSD base, that would be very bad. Pro: - I admit I don't know of any pro of pulseaudio, it just doesn't work fine = on Linux and probably isn't any better on FreeBSD. Cons: - I've tried to use pulseaudio on Debian Wheezy and Jessie. Sometimes it br= eaks the whole audio system, some others it works with sound glitches, lag and h= eavy CPU usage. On FreeBSD, I've been stayed away from this buggy bloatware: ALSA works great! (yes, all my experiences with PA has been on Debian, and I don= 't want to try it on FreeBSD) - Pulseaudio is from the same author of SystemD and avahi... We all know wh= at people think about this guy, his behaviors and the way he thinks about everything else... I'm moving away from Debian to FreeBSD, and the first reason was because of= no SystemD in FreeBSD. I don't want to have one of this software using all my ressource on my OS. FreeBSD works perfectly as it is, with ALSA on my lapto= p. - I don't know anybody who would want pulseaudio on FreeBSD. If they want poetterwares as default, there is Linux. - DragonFlyBSD removed completely Pulseaudio from their ports: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-August/313010.html And that is a good thing. Of course, I'm not asking PA to be removed from ports, having the choice to= use it is great! But having it forced onto us isn't good at all. I know I could recompile Chromium with Poudriere, I'm actually compiling a = lot of other packages to suit my needs. But compiling chromium alone take about= 12h on my computer (twice as long as all the others packages I have). I just can't do it. Maybe it would be better to add a second port named something like "chromium-pulseaudio" with pulseaudio as default? And leave this "chromium" port free of it. There are already ports like nginx-full, nginx-lite, nginx-naxsi which are = all the same except for their default options. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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