[arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

[Kevin Chadwick]

> I see that linus torvalds will have competition pretty soon on who gets
> to be the overlord. Or maybe they can coexist, one in kernel land and
> the other in userspace land ;)

linus used to run binaries from his earliest days just to make sure
that they still worked and constantly iterates that anything new should
not break or remove features from userland (atleast until the screams
aren't so noisy). Pulse brought new (the driver likely being playing
music whilst playing games without apps being setup to use plugs could
have been fixed in alsa) but removed/broke stuff too. It's surely wrong
to get personal however and Pulse does fix a problem for many atleast
but he would have to be much more subtle to make it in kernel land.

It's said a fundamental problem with user space development is
that often new projects are started because feature X is easier when
starting from scratch and so your swapping rather than developing. Is
that the case here or was there a difficult problem in getting alsa to
work with multiple input sources at once by default or more likely was
the difficulty integrating audio distribution which very few actually
care about.

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