On 2017-03-07 10:26, jjgaris via arch-general wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:00:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 07/03/17 18:29, jjgaris via arch-general wrote: >>> Since the update to firefox 52 the audio support has been broken. >>> This seems to be because pulse audio is now a dependency by default in >>> firefox. >>> However firefox can still be build with ALSA support. >>> >>> Without getting into any dicussion about issues about pulseaudio itself, I >>> believe it should be possible to use firefox on arch without being forces >>> to use pulse >>> audio. I am certainly not the only one to have banned this package from my >>> boxes. And having more choices is certainly a good thing. >>> >>> Not sure this is the right place but I would like to ask to change back to >>> the old defaults (ALSA). >>> With the old defaults, the user can choose to use pulse audio (or JACK) or >>> stay with plain ALSA support. >>> >> >> Upstream changed to pulseaudio by default. Arch follows upstream >> >> You can compile firefox yourself to set it being alsa only. >> >> A > > Building firefox takes hours making this not really an option for many users. > Arch has deviated before from the upstream default, I see no reason why we > should follow upstream by restricting the > choice of the user. >
Convince upstream to bring Alsa back as default. That's pretty much EOT from anyone involved into packaging in Arch. BP
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