Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Randy,

I don't want to continue rehashing the whole thread, as you and I are
essentially in agreement.

I do want to take this opportunity to highlight something we techies
overlook almost all the time:

We are human, and humans are not logical. We do not run on bash scripts
and don't have a CPU in our heads. Sheldon and Spock are fiction :-)

We humans run on emotion and the fuzzy-feel-good chemicals we squirt
into our brains, and techies are probably the worst equipped to spot
when it kicks in! And so:

On 28/04/2013 18:02, Randy Barlow wrote:
>> What we complain about here is basic low-level software changes that
>> > affect much more than just their own little universe, and will do it ON
>> > ALL LINUX MACHINES NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.
> Well, this will be the case if nobody forks these projects, or writes
> competing projects. As Dale has pointed out, there already is eudev. For
> systemd, you have OpenRC as an alternative. For Pulse, you can just use
> a different DE. I understand that you don't like the direction that
> these projects are going, and I'm not attempting to convince you to like
> or use them. I'm just trying to point out that there are viable
> alternatives.

It's easier to whinge, moan, complain and insist that devs rollback the
latest change than go through all the effort of running a fork. But it's
not always about what the dev wants. A good dev will listen to what his
users desire and incorporate that into his planning, this too seems to
be hardwired to a degree in our brains.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com