[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#446953: linux-sound-base simply obsolete?

[Adrian Bunk]

I also ran into this issue ("linux-sound-base depends on udev"),
and I also don't want to switch to udev (static /dev is working fine).

I'd suggest a different solution:

linux-sound-base is becoming obsolete and therefore a good candidate for 
being removed before lenny.

Hardware not supported by ALSA but supported by OSS only covers some ISA 
cards plus some exotic hardware (read: not PCs).

The OSS modules are becoming more and more unpopular, also due to the 
fact that most applications now support ALSA, and some applications 
(especially non-free ones) not or no longer support OSS.

The amount of overlap of hardware support between ALSA and OSS is 
already greatly reduced in recent kernels and is being reduced further.

The few OSS kernels modules currently present that overlap with ALSA 
regarding hardware support could be either no longer being built in the 
kernel images or always blacklisted in Debian (unless the user manually 
removes a blacklist entry).

cu
Adrian

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