I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri May 29 15:14:32 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 08:00 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
> > Nah, couldn't be related.  When you add that there are exactly zero
> > configuration tools to aid us in making this undocumented POC work,
> > ahh forget it, this is fedora and we are supposed to bleed for the
> > cause, right?
> 
> Motto:  "What we lack in documentation we make up for in ideology"
> 
> Back in my first unix job a zillion years ago the company I worked for
> had this rule that nothing got installed in a public */bin directory
> anywhere unless it also had a man page describing all the command line
> options installed into the appropriate man directory.  That worked out
> really well in the long run.  Newbies and wizards alike appreciated
> being able to just say "man foo" and be reminded of how things worked.
> I miss that.

+1

poc

PS Also, the man pages were for the most part well-written and concise.




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