From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C068F1381F3 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9106EE0993; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f48.google.com (mail-ee0-f48.google.com [74.125.83.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46A9DE0977 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f48.google.com with SMTP id d49so1657567eek.7 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:00:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KrlXvESIfYFg5HA384JmInwX9gwlaOY4Ja1lPZlFYe0=; b=iDjQBPcry593w05gZG4Z1IhKtW4/4tMQUXROGXQN9D3zsPzNqm2/cuyRAsJq5HCqGV csQJtli1/Q9ncqmAXYNgrtHiexxUXJyiTTHKM3vuTclmTBmJnJYDwP+91DCsf8DL6S8Z JogH1X+4ViKNuhmprpTfWNAr2Xrs6pfTVPQ+PPxioONKCJGO3vfkTCzSFVZGdUa3txUV TgPrY7MnvTRQWQzYt5Oko8Mk/9n8JQBt7X+rnOWsHy3ITbenviqUNvw4QZwpC3cT0BLM V/je3LA+/iQDS9pgXmvIMftQ/b25f0uZm0hSyUyggNzHSw/nvGiiO9jee+hCnO8qoHUc 7/Fw== X-Received: by 10.14.173.71 with SMTP id u47mr52561034eel.24.1366984825825; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-203-210.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.203.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id s47sm16129354eeg.8.2013.04.26.07.00.23 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <517A8841.3000103@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:59:29 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130413 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio References: <20130418193224.GA3234@acm.acm> <5170F203.3@gmail.com> <20130420093414.GA31686@waltdnes.org> <51798A1D.9090000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dbcf689b-8028-4c2f-95e1-4cf00424f623 X-Archives-Hash: 4b08a4f6f00c30e7311b31aad351c7f7 On 26/04/2013 10:50, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> "It does no harm and might be useful for some" is simply not a valid >> > reason to enforce a package on all users, especially when said package >> > is the latest johnny-come-lately from a wunderkind with a proven >> > reputation for writing invasive code[1] > Oh dear. I should've realized what this was really about. There aren't > really any technical reasons behind this, are there? Just some good > old fashioned Lennart hate boners. > > I have a perfect halloween campfire story for this group. The one > where a malicious udev update gives a backdoor for He Who Must Not Be > Named to install his LennartWare onto yor systems... You missed the mark completely and your bias appears to be showing. You have no idea what I might consider this to be "really about". And it's highly presumptuous of you to make the assumption you did. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com