This splits PulseAudio and JACK emulation into separate outputs. Doing
so provides a number of benefits.
First it fixes pw-pulse and pw-jack. Prior to this they pointed to bogus
locations because the environment variables were not evaluated.
Technically fixing this only requires setting libpulse-path and
libjack-path to any absolute path not necessarily separate outputs but
it comes as a nice result.
Secondly it allows overriding libpulseaudio with pipewire.pulse in many
packages. This is possible because the new outputs have a more standard
layout.
This adds two tests. One is for whether the paths used by the module are
present, while the other is for testing functionality of PipeWire
itself. This is done with the recent addition of installed tests by
upstream.
This allows for transparent JACK and PulseAudio emulation. With this you
can essentially replace your entire audio framework with just PipeWire
for almost no configuration.
Nathaniel Glen
worldofpeace
Peter Hoeg
Jan Tojnar