Re: git: 762aa0135a4e - main - Revert "www/chromium: Change default audio output to PULSEAUDIO to make chromium to play nice with desktop environments"

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In reply to: Yuri Victorovich : "git: 762aa0135a4e - main - Revert "www/chromium: Change default audio output to PULSEAUDIO to make chromium to play nice with desktop environments""
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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 15:54:08 UTC

On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 04:09:53PM +0000, Yuri Victorovich wrote:
> commit 762aa0135a4e18d32bd27bba5266fe6edd769d82
> 
>   Revert "www/chromium: Change default audio output to PULSEAUDIO
>   to make chromium to play nice with desktop environments"
> 
>   This reverts commit 89e432ced730385869e5bf6df4b705facbd1c947.
> 
>   Reason: Several people complained that the PulseAudio dependency
>   is a lot heavier than Sndio.

The real reason is that PulseAudio is not needed on FreeBSD *at all*
and thus should always be off by default.  Our kernel provides superior
audio stack, which PulseAudio does not not anything on top, and is
accessible via simple and lightweight APIs (OSS, ALSA, SNDIO).

./danfe