The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[Christopher Aillon]

On 04/24/2009 02:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 20:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
>> Except that it'll still be installed for upgrades.
>
> I don't really see that as a huge problem. I mean, you're going to get
> sprawl over time in upgrades anyway. It's a very small issue (it costs
> one menu entry and, oh, maybe 1MB of disk space) compared to the benefit
> we get for F11 in terms of non-pissed-off users (and time saved by the
> folks who do front line support on mailing lists, IRC and the forums).
>
> Anyway, it was discussed by FESco and approved, so now I've just got to
> work to get the package resurrected and updated.

Cough.  Don't forget we've been down this road already.  Mandating 
feature changes post feature freeze that is.  See codeina.  Eventually 
the Board reversed that decision.  And that debate was based on one of 
the basic tenets of Fedora and freedom.  Seriously guys, do I really 
need to escalate this to the Board?