please disable Pulseaudio in Gecko for Firefox and Thunderbird builds
Jan Beich
jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 19 09:00:09 UTC 2021
Sid <sid at bsdmail.com> writes:
> In /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk can Pulseaudio be disabled for Firefox
> and Thunderbird, since these programs already use OSS and Sndio? This
> way, the default packages won't install with Pulseaudio.
pulseaudio is a build-only dependency, not required by binary packages.
In some cases OSS is not enough e.g., multiplexing, postprocessing or
integration with widgets/panels in GNOME/KDE (via DBus).
$ pkg rquery %dn firefox | fgrep pulse
Binary packages are supposed to be full-featured. If not SNDIO and JACK
would be disabled as well. ;)
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