New comment by fosslinux on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/26411#issuecomment-748709909

Comment:
I strongly agree with @q66. Why does sndio become the exception for pulling in features? Unlike libressl (for example), we have alternatives (such as pulseaudio), and patching this in with a 1k LOC patch and a ton of new files is not very good.

This patch was originally added in #8056 and has barely changed since then. upstream is not hostile to readding this patch, it's just that there was no maintainer (src: https://twitter.com/sdroege_/status/1340367227581829123). If someone is interested in putting that work in, then upstream will merge it and we will take it *as downstream*, as our policy is in general.

I honestly think while sndio is a great project there is not enough upstream support and patches are not being maintained. Other quite large patches include:

- portaudio - https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/portaudio/patches/sndio.patch (883 lines)
- chromium - https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/293c8a41e6ab5c349db794ad748b00ba66c1a21c (886 lines)
- SDL - https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/SDL/patches/SDL-1.2.15-sndio.patch (375 lines)

There are many other smaller patches which IMO are fine as they are just altering build systems, including:

- baresip
- firefox{,-esr}
- icecat
- qt5-webengine
- thunderbird

Futhermore sndio seems to be "prioritized" in a lot of packages over alsa. (?!?!?!?!?)