[Bug 276121] audio/pulseaudio: enable JACK by default

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276121

            Bug ID: 276121
           Summary: audio/pulseaudio: enable JACK by default
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: desktop@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: lexi.freebsd@le-fay.org
          Assignee: desktop@FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(desktop@FreeBSD.org)

Created attachment 247450
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patch

i realise there's always a compromise on what options a port should enable by
default, but in this case, i think there's a significant benefit to enabling
JACK by default, because it allows PulseAudio to act as a front-end to JACK for
desktop users.

my situation is this: i have an audio interface in OSS, and i use that as the
JACK input and output device, in realtime, bitperfect mode, with VCHANs
disabled.  this means i don't want anything else (including pulseaudio) to
attempt to open the OSS device.  this is so i can use the audio device via JACK
in an audio application like audio/ardour.

but i also want to run normal desktop applications, like Firefox, mpv, etc.,
which already have PulseAudio support.  by far the easiest way for me to do
this is to run PulseAudio with the JACK sink/source modules, which causes
everything to work normally and without any modifications.  i believe this kind
of configuration would be fairly common for anyone interesting in doing audio
production on FreeBSD.

enabling JACK by default means i can do all this with the binary packages,
instead of having to build pulseaudio from source.

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