Drop libpulse hard dependency

steamopen

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7377 · opened 2020-09-27 by shoober420 · updated 2021-07-02 · 2 comments · github

Sshoober420 2020-09-27 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Sep 24 2020, at 19:38:35
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Obarun
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Please drop the libpulse hard dependency for Steam. There are folks who use pure ALSA systems like myself, and don’t use pulseaudio in anyway.

Kklib-so 2021-06-27 github

I second this. Eleven years putting linux OSs together and I've never once had an issue with audio that didn't involve the word pulseaudio. Decided to give steam on linux a go :) As predicted, no audio, because...something about pulseaudio. Evan a wiki page on how to hack it to work would be tremendous.

Sshoober420 2021-07-02 github

with steam now using pipewire, this seems very close to possible

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