On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:15:09 +0200, Mark Hills wrote:
On systems with a network mounted home directory this is thoroughly useful to allow for a core set of asoundrc settings, but with different settings on different hosts.
It's not possibly to implement this in our own asoundrc or local customisation, as it's too late. The installation file must be modified.
This is similar to ~/.Xdefaults-* on some systems.
Signed-off-by: Mark Hills mark@xwax.org
This kind of change popping up sometimes in the past, too, and I have a mixed feeling whether to take such a change globally or not.
In one side, it can work, but OTOH, if you can deal with that detail, you're certainly able to set up the environment variable easily, too.
I'm happy for a concern to be raised.
Can you clarify, which environment variable?
I wasn't aware it was possible to override asoundrc with an environment variable, until I looked up just now and found ALSA_CONFIG_PATH in the code.
Though I do have vague recollection of trying this some years ago. I think perhaps I ad issues using it to read other config files. I will re-visit when I have time.
FYI To solve my development work, I have:
~/.asoundrc -- my personal settings ~/.asoundrc-xxx -- host specific settings
and I must read both, in that order.