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

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--- Comment #2 from OlivierW <olivierw1+bugzilla-freebsd at 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 breaks
the whole audio system, some others it works with sound glitches, lag and heavy
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 what
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 laptop.

- 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.

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