[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Sun Jan 29 12:35:07 EST 2012


On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Thanasis Georgiou <sakisds.s at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 29 January 2012 18:44, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > When I've got a set up and I'll upgrade it, it's ok if things get
> > borked, because of a new sound server. But if a group of people file bug
> > reports, than it's ignorant not to fix the new sound server, but instead
> > to demand that it must become dependency for more and more software even
> > if it has nothing to do with audio.
> >
> > - Ralf
> >
> GDM has to do with audio. It supports everything gnome wants to
> support. Which means it needs audio to either play a sound when you
> input a wrong password or to read the usernames aloud in case the user
> has visibility problems. It might work without pulseaudio (dummy
> package), sure, but it might not work as intended. The guys at the
> Gnome project decided they want pulseaudio. Now you can either try and
> convince them to drop support or convince the PulseAudio team to fix
> it's problems.
>
Indeed, this should be the thing the complainers _should_ be doing.
Archlinux ships vanilla upstream, so you're really barking at the wrong
tree here. Please  consider asking either PA for help or ditch it.

>
> --
> Thanasis Georgiou
>



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Jelle van der Waa


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