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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> And you are vastly overstating the desirability of having pulseaudio |
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> enforced on users without very good cause |
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How much barefaced lying can you do in one sentence? |
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1) it's not enforced _on you_. USE=-pulse |
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2) bluetooth headset goes in, audio goes out is good cause. |
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> and seem to have |
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> underestimated how deep that rabbit hole goes. |
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No I haven't. I have no idea how deep the complexity of pulseaudio is |
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because I don't know how to use it. I don't know how to use it because |
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it just works. Somewhere, somehow at the back of these config files |
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there was some switch I turned on for some nefarious purpose of |
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enabling some plugin for switching default outputs. But if I compare |
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how well I learned to use grub vs pulseaudio, two things that I use |
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everyday, it's clear that one of them was more successful in hiding |
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the complexity from me before I used it successfully. HINT: it wasn't |
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grub. |
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> As others have stated, how many more such packages are there that can be |
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> argued to have them on a system? A good first grab would be the number |
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> of packages where the users are >=1% and <=99% |
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You can argue those packages if you wish and I guarantee you'll fail |
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99.9% of them. Because they don't serve the purpose of controlling |
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PLUG N PLAY AUDIO. |
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If you actually talk like it matters what the programs do, rather than |
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just making airy abstractions on what some ideal fetishized system |
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should be like, you'll understand things better. |
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> "It does no harm and might be useful for some" is simply not a valid |
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> reason to enforce a package on all users, especially when said package |
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> is the latest johnny-come-lately from a wunderkind with a proven |
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> reputation for writing invasive code[1] |
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Oh dear. I should've realized what this was really about. There aren't |
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really any technical reasons behind this, are there? Just some good |
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old fashioned Lennart hate boners. |
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I have a perfect halloween campfire story for this group. The one |
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where a malicious udev update gives a backdoor for He Who Must Not Be |
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Named to install his LennartWare onto yor systems... |
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Later guys. |
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