[Nix-dev] Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: alsaib patch 2snd part

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:

>> I don’t think anything like that is needed: $ALSA_PLUGINS_DIR is read by
>> alsa-lib, which allows it to find ALSA plug-ins, even those installed in
>> the user environment.  That’s all we need, right?
> consider an x86_64 system. Now intall i686 Skype

Honestly, I don’t care about proprietary software, especially if the
technical price to pay is so high.

> Which alsaPlugins to should be insalled now?  the i686 or the x86_64
> version?
>
> That's why you have to wrap executables (at least some)

Why not just special-case Skype and keep the general case simple then?

>> On IRC I was talking about fixing ‘alsamixer’, ‘amixer’, etc. so that
>> they too would honor $ALSA_PLUGINS_DIR.  I don’t understand why they
>> don’t currently.
>
> Because alsaLib code contains the same section twice. I only fixed one
> the first time because I'm used to not duplicating any code .. :-(
> The mixer code is different from the backend code.

OK, got it.  Then can you fix this first?  Then we’ll discuss the Skype
issue separately.

Thanks,
Ludo’.