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[PATCH] gnu: Add sound service.

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From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 31297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#31297] [PATCH] gnu: Add sound service.
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 12:39:31 +0300

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Hello Ludovic,

Thank you for review!

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/services/sound.scm: New file.
>> * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add this.
>> * doc/guix.texi (Sound Services): New chapter.
>
> [...]
>
>> +@node Sound Services
>> +@subsubsection Sound Services
>> +
>> +The @code{(gnu services alsa)} module provides an
>> +@code{alsa-service-type} service to generate an ALSA
>> +@file{/etc/asound.conf} configuration file.
>
> Is this file required to get PulseAudio support?  I realize I have
> ~/.asoundrc that’s similar to what this new service does, so it may be
> that I simply forgot that things wouldn’t work well without it.

In case of existing ‘~/.asoundrc’ it's not required.  But I spent some
time to find a ‘asoundrc’ config and be glad if it was in a Guix manual.

[…]

I also replaced “to” with “by” in
“Whether to use Pulseaudio by configuring ALSA to use PulseAudio.”
                           ^^
sentence in Guix documentation.

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Oleg.

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