Frederic: Note that Solaris does not yet use PulseAudio. On Solaris we are currently using the GStreamer backend for libcanberra, so it is incorrect to say that it is an official approved dependency just by virtue of libcanberra. If it is necessary to integrate PulseAudio for gnome-mixer functionalities to work, then we can consider adding it. However, the benefits of using PulseAudio when using OSS don't seem to be as compelling as when you are using ALSA since OSS has mixing functionalities lacking in ALSA already built in. Brian Frederic Peters says:
So it seems to me that we should officially promote pulseaudio as official dep, or readd volume control applet and audio capplet somewhere.It was almost an officially approved dependency already, by virtue of libcanberra, that was accepted for 2.24. I added it, as well as its dependencies (speex and libsndfile) in JHBuild in this revision: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/jhbuild?view=revision&revision=2620 Frederic