<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580">bug 72580</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:desrt@desrt.ca" title="desrt <desrt@desrt.ca>"> desrt</a> <pre>I consider it to be an automake "best practice" to fail instead of silently disabling a feature. The reason for that is simple: the person who downloads and pulseaudio may simply not have the libcap development headers installed. I think it's better to give them a chance to choose to install them or to explicitly specify --without-cap. If I make your suggested modification then the build will just go ahead without capabilities support, which would be a reduction in functionality (or in this case security) just because the user happened not to have a particular package installed. The same logic applies to people who are making distro packages as well... I think that it's always better to let them know.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>