I think expressing my own opinion about Lennart-made software is my right, after all. Firstly, it's almost impossible nowadays to avoid including avahi, systemd and pulseaudio into a desktop distro so, there is no real choice. This issue became a sensible matter for those users who for instance, wanted to have a silly mp3 player working without going through the PA nonsense, really missing the old ALSA-oh-it-was-always-working days. If you want to bring complexity but you end up not being able to handle it, then you're not a really good engineer, IMHO.
Having said that, I also wonder where's the lovely modularity the various *nix platforms had. If this is the actual direction of Linux Foundation, Redhat and Canonical, I am worried that Linux would end up being an OSX-wannabe. Of course, I am not only bringing my personal opinion here, but the one of the majority of users I've been talking with. I am not against changes, I am actually in favor of them, but only when they really make sense and solve problems, which it doesn't seem the case lately. I didn't want to offend anyone, but just having fun (sigh) of IMHO bad design decisions. -- Fabio Erculiani
