edge repository has sndio package but support isn't being enabled at build time in other packages

e.g. in the build log from the mplayer package also in edge community: "Checking for sndio audio ... no" "Enabled optional drivers: Audio output: alsa oss v4l2 sdl mpegpes(dvb)" "Disabled optional drivers: Audio output: sndio sun openal jack pulse nas esd arts ivtv dxr2"

The same for mpv in edge community: "Checking for sndio audio input/output : disabled" and vlc: "checking sndio.h usability... no checking sndio.h presence... no checking for sndio.h... no"

I am not sure whether the firefox package in edge testing has it enabled, but it would be really nice if it has because while I wouldn't mind compiling mplayer myself, compiling firefox every time a new version is released is not a possibility for me. Also, ALSA support (on which the Alpine package appears to rely currently) will be removed from the code base in the near future according to Mozilla developers, so it appears sndio will be the only way to avoid pulseaudio in Alpine then.

I had work on that done but gave up on it since sndio was buggy for me, adding sndio support will require volunteers to add and maintain suppot

That makes sense. Great to hear that someone is aware of the problem. Hopefully the situation will improve in the future. I will try sndio and if it doesn't work for me, I will just use ALSA for now and JACK if necessary. I will be switching to Alpine as my main OS (I will be using Debian Buster for some stuff that is harder to do on Alpine; currently exclusively using Ubuntu 18.04) in a few days because I want a more minimalist distro without systemd and pulseaudio. I do have some experience with Alpine already though as I used to run it on a Raspberry Pi as an NFS server (which worked excellently :) ).

I use pulse and am the pulseaudio maintainer for Alpine so no luck from me

sndio is moved to community and upgraded few days ago.
Now packages in community can be built with it

That's great to hear. Unfortunately, I've given up on running Alpine on my laptop for now because I fear musl will result in too many issues during software development (Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux), and therefore I would probably end up using the other Linux distribution almost exclusively since I don't have the time required to debug any problems. I have settled for openSUSE Leap for now, which has at least allowed me to ditch pulseaudio for plain ALSA. I still think Alpine is a very interesting Linux distribution though, and I will be reviving my Alpine powered RPi NFS server some time soon. Furthermore, I hope to someday contribute to postmarketOS, but I think running Alpine as a desktop OS would be a bit too adventurous for me right now.

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