[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] daemon: Tone down system mode snarkiness

Arun Raghavan arun at arunraghavan.net
Thu Jul 14 02:38:35 UTC 2016


We do support system mode for the cases where it makes sense, so it's
really not sensible to be unconditionally snarky at our users for doing
it.

Signed-off-by: Arun Raghavan <arun at arunraghavan.net>
---
 src/daemon/main.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/daemon/main.c b/src/daemon/main.c
index a5faba5..15b862e 100644
--- a/src/daemon/main.c
+++ b/src/daemon/main.c
@@ -972,8 +972,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     pa_log_info("Running in system mode: %s", pa_yes_no(pa_in_system_mode()));
 
     if (pa_in_system_mode())
-        pa_log_warn(_("OK, so you are running PA in system mode. Please note that you most likely shouldn't be doing that.\n"
-                      "If you do it nonetheless then it's your own fault if things don't work as expected.\n"
+        pa_log_warn(_("OK, so you are running PA in system mode. Please make sure that you actually do want to do that.\n"
                       "Please read http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/ for an explanation why system mode is usually a bad idea."));
 
     if (conf->use_pid_file) {
-- 
2.7.4



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