On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > just curious, what ports actually *need* esound? I would be willing > > to convert them to sndio so we can toss this garbage in the dumpster > > where it belongs. > > For me, esound's attraction has always been the ability to carry > audio over the network. That's something sndio/aucat can't do > (yet?). But since I have now for several years been unable to get > this to work on the occasions I tried, I'm not feeling the esound > love any more. > > Firefox has an esound run dependency whose use I don't know. > GNOME used to rely on esound as a multiplexer; I don't know what's > up with that nowadays.
GNOME is totally fine without esound now. It is even recommended not to use it anymore. -- Antoine
