[RFC] disable OSS sound support

Olivier Galibert galibert at pobox.com
Tue Feb 17 16:43:37 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:51:50PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
> > But, you know, it's their choice to write proprietary software using
> > ABIs that were promised to them to be stable at the time.
> 
> GNU/Linux ABIs are not stable forever nor should they be.

The kernel ABIs are stable forever and should be.  Glibc tries to stay
stable too.  It's only the GUIs that wouldn't recognize the word
"compatibility" if it turned and bit them in the ass (well, libX11 is
stable, but the things on top of it...).  Dumping something as
cost-less as OSS for cosmetic reasons just means you don't care about
compatibility or users in general.  Which wouldn't be a first for
Fedora, mind you.

  OG.




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