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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:47:08
Message-Id: 20130424104639.GA2872@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio by William Hubbs
1 Hello, William.
2
3 On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:59:54PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
4 > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
5 > > > Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any
6 > > > scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike
7 > > > udev...)
8
9 > > Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo
10 > > users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough
11 > > to be able to do that *easily* whilst keeping packages they want,
12 > > especially Gnome ones!
13
14 > I"m not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is
15 > coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you
16 > will have to install it if you want newer Gnome.
17
18 Any idea why? Even on systems which lack audio entirely?
19
20 I hate this recent phenomenom, where disparate entities are bundled
21 together ever more tightly, reducing users' choice.
22
23 > William
24
25 --
26 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>