Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: 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

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 22:10, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: 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

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
... (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat between sound applications and the kernel. If you don't understand the term sound server you probably shouldn't be using Gentoo. When

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/18/2013 05:28 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: ... (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat between sound applications and the kernel. If you don't understand the term sound server you

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I don't use wine. For a lot of good reasons. Name one. fat, slow and buggy. Do you need more? If I really had an application that I must use and is windows only - I would install windows. That is a lot quicker and less painful than that wine crapfest shitting all over the place. I