[ecasound] Why does liboil default to NO?

The dev/packager of my distro who took on improving the ecasound package
noticed that liboil defaults to NO. I offered to play relay.

So: why does ecasound default to liboil = NO?
Is it sensible to enable it?

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Philipp
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