Hello, William. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:59:54PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any > > > scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike > > > udev...)
> > Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo > > users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough > > to be able to do that *easily* whilst keeping packages they want, > > especially Gnome ones! > I"m not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is > coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you > will have to install it if you want newer Gnome. Any idea why? Even on systems which lack audio entirely? I hate this recent phenomenom, where disparate entities are bundled together ever more tightly, reducing users' choice. > William -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
