Re: audio/openal-soft: ALSA backend is broken on NetBSD

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 08:25:45PM +0900, PHO wrote:
> So I think it's better to disable the ALSA backend on this platform,
> especially since the SunAudio backend works perfectly, and even more so
> thanks to the in-kernel mixer. I mean I propose the following change to the
> package. Do you have any opinions?

I think that the alsa option should only be available on Linux.

At best it's there as an option for build testing on NetBSD.

I see the argument for "I want to choose between OSS and pulseaudio
with a config file and ALSA lets me do that", but the kind of
applications relying on OpenAL tend to be latency-critical.
Network streaming of their audio via pulse makes no sense.