[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

Wed Oct 12 14:50:18 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 10/10/11 11:08 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Monday 10 October 2011 12:02, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+>> OSS support doesn't cost anything to us, so I see no reason to not
+>> enable us by default like we do for years.
+> 
+> I agree.
+
+It does cost something. It costs a user process and it costs a kernel
+module and various other bits and bobs on a running system. Either that
+or it costs the pain of maintaning soundwrapper and patching all the
+packages that we know to use oss sound to use it. To say it costs us
+nothing is just not true.
+
+
+We should also be good citizens and try to discourage the use of legacy
+systems, just like we're doing with esound.
+
+I'm all for providing the support, but I'm not convinced it should be
+enabled by default. Just an option that can be enabled for users that
+need it and is well documented.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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