[pulseaudio-discuss] Is running as user smart or dumb?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 01.01.10 12:43, Markus Rechberger (mrechberger at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since I didn't get much response with my more polite e-mail, here's
> > what I really think, given my current ignorance about pulseaudio...
> >
> > PulseAudio is cool, but I fear it's over-engineered by some Ph.D's
> > with too much elegance in their solution, and not enough real world
> > experience.  Run as user?  Really?
> >
> 
> it would be ok as long as it would support multiple users.
> The problem is that it doesn't care about /etc/group audio permissions and thus
> breaks backward compatibility with alsa.

That is bullshit.

> You have a few options
> * the easiest one is to remove pulseaudio and get audio work again as
> it was meant to be (which is also conform to all other unixsystems)

Please don't post FUD like this on this ML. If you want to spread FUD
then I can tell you there are much better fora for that.

Lennart

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