New comment by paper42 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/38541#issuecomment-1208705788

Comment:
> The package places its autostart files in the XDG standard location /etc/xdg/autostart and thus start automatically without intervention by the user when installed.

Automatically starting pipewire on behalf of the user is a bad idea and we won't do it.

> However, this would require the pipewire-pulse desktop file (and ideally the binary and other configuration tools, for organization sake) to be placed in separate, conflicting package since pipewire can also be used alongside pulseaudio.

That's not pretty and would be confusing to new users coming from other distributions. We chose to not enable pipewire (and pipewire-pulse) automatically for the user and we document a common way to start pipewire here: https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pipewire.html.

> The two autostart files pipewire.desktop and pipewire-pulse.desktop are located in /usr/share/applications which has nothing to do with auto-starting applications, only listing them in menus and application runners.

They are have `NoDisplay=true` set, so they shouldn't show up in application runners.