Bug#726648: liballegro4.4: Is it a good idea to recommend (not depend on) liballegro4.4-plugin-alsa?

[Sylvain]

Hi Tobias,

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 01:06:41AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> the plugin is not a dependency, because it's not required to get sound.
> If it's not installed, OSS is used. I just tested that (on jessie) and I
> had to manually load the kernel module snd-pcm-oss to make that work on
> Linux. No idea why. I also tested an unrelated program (higan) with OSS
> and that also required loading the kernel module manually. So the
> problem seems to be that OSS does not work out of the box.

Thanks for the info.

AFAIK desktops tend to use PulseAudio/Alsa or plain Alsa rather than
OSS, so it may make sense to be sure the Alsa plugin is available.

I would also suggest writing something on the standard output when
neither Alsa nor OSS can be properly initialized, WDYT?

Cheers!
Sylvain