[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):

 I now retract one of my previous observations: if the user has a
 client.conf in his profile, the system client.conf is not read.  This is
 what colin suggested originally.

 However, this is a VERY UNUSUAL behavior.  Regularly, apps and client libs
 first read the system configuration file, then read the user configuration
 file, and then merge the configurations, overriding system defaults with
 the user's custom configuration.  I would have expected this to be true in
 the case of PulseAudio as well, and I am willing to bet most sysadmins
 would expect that too.

 Examples of this user-overridability with defaults-taken-from-system-
 configuration-files can be found in:

 bash
 openssh
 kde
 gnome

 you name it, it generally operates in that way.

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