[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 72580] pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580

--- Comment #3 from desrt <desrt at desrt.ca> ---
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.

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