What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ...

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 22 September 2003 13:32, Randall J. Parr wrote:
> It has been very, very nice install Fedora yum/apt and be able to
> tell my customers, my sister, my wife, "Just do ..." and presto,
> changeo, you can play your MP3's or watch your DVD's. They really
> don't do so well when I pass on to them the typical answer from these
> lists of "just install all this stuff from freshrpms, reconfigure
> your modules.conf, maybe rebuild your kernel, and it 'just works',
> Yeah, right"

While freshrpms.net does "support" alsa, all the software they build 
also supports OSS, and it's most often trivial to use OSS instead of 
Alsa with their packages.

You should also look to 2.6, when everybody will be using Alsa IIRC...

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