[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v3 00/11] Introduce memfd support

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

22.03.2016 11:24, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет:
> [readding the list]
> 22.03.2016 05:56, Ahmed S. Darwish пишет:
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:01:14AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>
>> Alexander mentioned the SteamOS case, where "they don't link
>> statically, but have a 'known-good' copy of the library packaged
>> and put into LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and it may be next to impossible to
>> explain to the users how to upgrade it."
>
> It is about the standalone Steam client, not SteamOS...
>
>>
>> I'm sure though that even if they have a 'known-good' copy, they
>> keep the daemon version in-sync with the library version? I can't
>> think of any sane reason not to do so..
>
> So they don't.
>
>> Anyway, if that case is indeed problematic, maybe we can lobby
>> them a bit to do a proper distribution of PA? If anyone has some
>> contacts, I'll be glad to open a communication channel..
>
> It is impossible. They connect to a distribution-provided daemon. So all
> we could reasonably do is to ask them to rely on the system-installed
> libpulse (including the 32-bit version).
>
> Also, I have performed some research on games available via gog.com or
> in the past Humble Bundles that have a native Linux version. It seems
> that games that bundle libpulse are rare there, if they exist there at
> all (0 copies of libpulse found in 12 randomly chosen games), which is a
> good news.

Spoke too soon. The game "Baldurs Gate The Original Saga", available on 
gog.com, bundles wine and libpulse.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov