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

[Sylvain]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 08:50:23PM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Am 18.10.2013 20:04, schrieb Sylvain:
> > 
> > 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'm still not fully convinced. Having that package only recommended is a
> neat way to switch between ALSA and OSS without having to know about
> Allegros configuration file. You should also know that you're living a
> bit on the edge if you don't do what people recommend you to do. ;)

I guess there's a bad design of sorts in Allegro, defaulting to OSS
while that's more or less deprecated :/

> > I would also suggest writing something on the standard output when
> > neither Alsa nor OSS can be properly initialized, WDYT?
> > 
> 
> Good idea. Do you feel like sending a patch?

Not at all :)

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Sylvain