John Morris wrote: Despite the
plans for the future, currently PA doesn't provide any must have features above what exists without it. Unless somebody can identify a real world use case for moving a playing stream from one device to another. Cute? Oh yea. Useful? Not very.
.. unless you are using bluetooth headphones or streaming sound in a terminal server or ..
It is easy to dismiss features you don't use but as the long discussions about KDE 4 have shown that, even very obscure features in KDE 3 is important to some users.
Right now I'd recommend treating PA like SELinux on a desktop. Neitherserve a real purpose yet so leave it enabled until something blows up.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/FAQ#Is_it_useful_on_a_desktop.3FBrowser plugins are a constant source of security issues. Isolating them via nspluginwrapper and SELinux definitely does serve a real purpose.
Rahul