[arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

[Heiko Baums]

Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:22:05 +0100
schrieb Stefan Wilkens <stefanwilkens at gmail.com>:

> Does this really need to be rehashed yet again? This isn't arch
> related yet these PA back and forths keeps popping up in the mailboxes
> of all the registered people looking for arch-related content.
> 
> I didn't follow the original discussion so I cant argument on that
> extent, but the last thing we need on this list is more noise.

I guess there's a reason why this always pops up on several mailing
lists. I would say it's just related to Lennart Poettering who has also
developed systemd which was originally mentioned regarding the mount
behaviour, and who thinks he needs to take part on the discussion
about the FHS and thinks he needs to change every standard.

And both tools shall be declared as a new Linux standard (that's at
least my impression) even if both don't work very well, don't support
every hardware or are just unnecessary (PulseAudio) or have issues
regarding incompatibilities (systemd).

That's the point and that's why you always will read PulseAudio in
threads which are at least partly related to Lennart Poettering or his
software.

If Lennart would either fix all those issues in PulseAudio and systemd,
so that they would really work for everybody and would really bring
advantages for everybody or at least no disadvantages, or if his
software would just be optional and not needed as a dependency by some
distros or DEs, I'm pretty sure this discussion wouldn't always pop up
again.

Heiko