[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 15555 - ludo - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: development/libraries/SDL top-level

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Ludovic Courts wrote:

> Author: ludo
> Date: 2009-05-11 19:57:42 +0000 (Mon, 11 May 2009)
> New Revision: 15555
> 
> You can view the changes in this commit at:
>    https://svn.nixos.org/viewvc/nix?rev=15555&view=rev
> 
> Modified:
>    nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/default.nix
>    nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
> 
> Log:
> SDL: Add PulseAudio support.

I noticed that this introduces quite a feq additional dependencies for SDL:
namely, SDL -> PulseAudio -> GConf -> {Orbit2, GTK, ...}.

But furthermore, it's not clear to me whether having PulseAudio support in SDL
is really useful.  It's my understanding that applications that play through
ALSA should work fine in a properly configured PulseAudio system.  See e.g.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Configuration_of_the_ALSA_PulseAudio_plugin

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/