how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 12/19/2007 03:48 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:28:22AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> We don't have necessarily time to do such things. Many people in fedora
>>> are benevolent. 
>>>
>>> Anyway why not do a pam module such that all the login systems (be it
>>> wdm, xdm, console login...) can benefit from it? We have a wondefully
>>> modular system for everything that can take place on login, this would
>>> ease life for a lot of people, and allow for choice of UI instead of
>>> tying those who don't have the money to pay programmers to UI they don't
>>> like.
>>
>> Don't let Nalin hear that...
> 
> I don't really understand your comment.

Nalin (the pam maintainer in Fedora), is very much against using pam 
modules in non-authentication ways.  Yes, we know that other things do 
it.  That doesn't mean we should keep doing it.