On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:42:06 +0200 Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Wim Taymans wrote: > >> The pipewire daemon is meant to be small and modular. You could run >> a custom version of that with only what you want. It could possibly be >> smaller than jack. > >Systemd started off like that as well... and now it has its tentacles >everywhere, and has become a nightmare to configure and for security. > >Some questions: > >* Will PW run without systemd, polkit, dbus ? >* Will it have a configuration that is fully controlled by the > end user, centralised in one place, and that is protected from > modification by just dropping files in some ***.d ? > >> Is it more complicated? probably.. mostly the memory management and >> abstractions of the processing nodes. > >> All of the desktop stuff (pulse-server) and autoconnect things >> (session-manager) are in separate processes that you don't need to run >> if you don't want to. > >If this is going the work the same way as systemd I fear it will be >glorious pain to for the end used to remain in control. Feature creep is my greatest concern. I consider myself moderately technical competent, but struggle with a lot of this stuff. The average user has no hope. At one time you added things that you wanted. These days you have to remove what you don't want - but might not even know was there until it interferes with what you want to do. I originally moved over to Linux to avoid this sort of thing. -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev