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  1. Bug #371897
  2. Comment #349

Comment 349 for bug 371897

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In , Sorceror (shacklein) wrote :

(In reply to comment #242)
> On Ubuntu systems that removes ubuntu-desktop as well, leading to no end of
> future upgrade problems.

All that would need to be done is remove pulseaudio again after an upgrade reinstalls ubuntu-desktop.

(In reply to comment #243)
> (In reply to comment #241)
> > Wine will be able to support pulse via wineopenal.
>
> Really? Prove it. With working code.

I hear people are working on it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#OpenAL << indicates that OpenAL has a pulse driver.
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html << is another implementation of OpenAL that has a pulse driver, and prefers it by default.

> Until you do you are nothing but a troll and all discussions of enhancing
> winealsa or for writing wineopenal are off-topic for this bug report.

If the idea that "Wine should support PulseAudio" can be satisfactorally implemented by improvements to winealsa or implementation of wineopenal, then they are valid solutions. As of yet, they have not been proven to be either satisfactory or unsatisfactory.