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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #295832
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 295832

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Martin Stjernholm (msub) wrote : Re: Alsa does not honor pcm.!default in ~/.asoundrc because of /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

Intentional or not, it's bad behavior: It's clearly a dist configuration that cannot be overridden either by user or by local system settings. As said earlier: People might have any number of reasons for not wanting this hardcoded override that the pulse package does.

The default pcm/ctl is configurable in alsa, it no longer is when pulseaudio is running. If this pcm/ctl override were the only or prime reason to run pulseaudio then it'd be ok, but that's not the case.

I therefore persist: It would be good if this was overridable at least on the system level, typically through a setting in /etc/default/pulseaudio.