Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Les Mikesell]

Lubomir Kundrak wrote:

>>  So you think that while running a stable (not Rawhide) version
>> of Fedora, it is normal for me to file a sound-related bug report
>> every few days when it stops working, for the past 4 years or so?
> 
> Now tell me you were not aware of the volume of updates that come with
> Fedora? If you were and you were not aware things may break then you are
> either naive or have some other problem. Noone forces you to install
> those, you could use yum-security plugin for example. And if even
> security updates break your system (the pulseaudio one was security) --
> and you have no interest in contributing to development -- ever heard of
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux? You made the wrong choice.

Or, if you want something free, there is CentOS.

> Moreover, if you looked into history of this list, you would certainly
> discover what was the reason for the pulseaudio update (and find whom to
> blame :), but you certainly didn't bother.

Is the reason a broken system is shipping supposed to be relevant to an 
end user?

> If you're not informed and skilled enough to debug the problem, the
> developers would certainly be interested to help you. That's what bug
> reports are for, no need to pollute mailing list with it.

And when the bug reports have no activity for months?

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