On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > > In my stron opinion, and opinions are allowed in Gentoo, just not > imposing your opinion onto others (and that I am not doing, feel free > to disagree!), pulseadio is spyware, read more here: > > Re: [Alsa-user] sans-pulseaudio Firefox? was: a strange thing > https://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg31928.html >
What exactly about Pulseaudio do you think makes it "spyware?" The fact that it supports remote connections? I hope you're not using X11... Obviously you do need to use a secure configuration so that random hosts aren't tapping your microphone, but it would be news to me if this was allowed in the default configuration (and certainly a bug that should be fixed on Gentoo). I never bothered to migrate to pulseaudio for years, but started having random issues when logging into multiple X11 sessions from multiple users (probably a console permissions thing). Moving to pulse fixed that, and was surprisingly simple. While many probably don't need its features it makes a lot of sense to me... -- Rich
