[Bug 216327] www/chromium: Pulseaudio compiled in by default

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--- Comment #10 from Jan Beich (mail not working) <jbeich at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Lars Engels from comment #6)
> I'd say that 90% of chromium users on FreeBSD use pre-compiled
> packages and don't want to build their own PA-free version.

Have you tried to "pkg delete -f pulseaudio" after installing chromium? If
chromium still works fine then runtime dependency can be dropped, see my patch.

(In reply to Petr Fischer from comment #8)
> Don't want pulseaudio. OSS (+ ALSA over OSS) is just enough as default.

IIRC, native OSS backend never left TODO stage. ALSA on FreeBSD is just a
wrapper around OSS which is why it supports volume per application
transparently unlike Linux. In WebRTC case ALSA doesn't support anything but
"default" or "oss" (both using /dev/dsp) as a microphone for getUserMedia, so
if the mic is connected via usb or to a different panel one would have to edit
~/.asoundrc, reassign pins via device.hints or just use pulseaudio.

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