On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Thanasis Georgiou <sakisd...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 29 January 2012 18:44, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@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 > -- Jelle van der Waa
