[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #606: [PATCH] pulseaudio systemwide is a pain

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#606: [PATCH] pulseaudio systemwide is a pain
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  Reporter:  Rudd-O  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
 Milestone:          |   Component:  clients
Resolution:          |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by Rudd-O):

 Just so you know I'm not making baseless assertions here:

 For example, you say:

 "Default pulse install.

 No system wide daemon configured/running.

 Modified system wide client.conf to point at a remote server.

 User's own client.conf which does not set a default server.

 When that user logs in, they user will have their own pulseaudio daemon
 autospawned, however this daemon will not be registered with the x11
 session as start-pulseaudio-x11 will not have been run meaning that:

 SSHing to another machine and playing sound will not work.
 "

 This first criticism is INVALID, since if the administrator has access to,
 and has defined a default-client in client.conf, it's clearly a machine
 under control of someone knowledgeable, clearly not a home machine we're
 talking about and the administrator can govern policy in the network and
 cope with this "breakage" which is really just an esoteric complaint.

 "The daemon will die after a period of inactivity and be respawned again
 later. This is unneeded and pointless overhead."

 Why would it be respawned, or even started in the first place, when
 clients HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO CONTACT ANOTHER SERVER?  Don't you read
 your own autospawning code?

 Yet another invalid criticism on your part.

 So, baseless complaints against my patch = 2.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/606#comment:11>
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