[pulseaudio-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] [PACKAGERS] RealtimeKit is a dependency of PA now, PolicyKit won't be any longer

[Lennart Poettering]

Yo,

Another heads-up:

I just stripped all he messy permission-related startup code from
PA. There is no group "pulse-rt" anymore, and no calls into
PolicyKit. It's all gone.

Instead you now either have to set RLIMIT_RTPRIO before starting PA
or use RealtimeKit. RealtimeKit is now a dependency of PA. (Except
when it isn't, i.e. embedded worlds)

Why? Simply because that old code was crap and there is now finally a
safe and secure way to enabe RT by default on the desktop, which is
RealtimeKit.

More information about rtkit you can find here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.devel/18224

And here:

http://git.0pointer.de/?p=rtkit.git;a=blob;f=README

Lennart

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