Bug#835838: pulseaudio: Do not intercept ALSA if environment variable is set

[Felipe Sateler]

On 28 August 2016 at 14:40, Javier Serrano Polo <javier at jasp.net> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 9.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> There should be a way for an ALSA application not to be intercepted by
> PulseAudio; for instance, by setting an environment variable. One
> example is the ALSA back end of LMMS, where the interception is buggy
> ( https://bugs.debian.org/781479 ). With this patch, setting
> PULSE_ALSA_HOOK_CONF=/dev/null disables the interception.

Hmm. I wonder if instead of using an override pointing to a different
file, it would be a simple disable flag (ALSA_PULSE_DISABLE). Is this
possible in this configuration language?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler