PulseAudio info needed

[John Morris]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:03, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Unless somebody can identify a
> > real world use case for moving a playing stream from one device to
> > another.  Cute?  Oh yea.  Useful?  Not very.
> 
> .. unless you are using bluetooth headphones or streaming sound in a 
> terminal server or ..

Moving between a BT headset and external speakers is a useful feature.
Haven't had to do it but can't see where that can't be done with ALSA
along with the existing hotplug/dbus/udev/blah.  Streaming sound over
the network has been in ESD (and NAS) for over a decade.  Moving a
playing stream between them without a glitch is just gravy.  If it works
it is of course a handy thing to have but if the price is the whole
desktop locking up even once a month it's outta there.  Stability is far
more important.

> Browser plugins are a constant source of security issues. Isolating them 
> via nspluginwrapper and SELinux definitely does serve a real purpose.

A real purpose, but for me[1] the potential downside of losing SELinux
is worth about the ten minutes I suggested Googling for an answer.
Thankfully the SELinux troubleshooter now solves most problems.  Life is
just too short to spend hours feeding SELinux, Pulseaudio or
Networkmanager's seemingly never ending brokenness.  When they work,
great.  And someday they might 'Just Work'. But for now when they break
turn em off and get on with life.  The system works fine without all of
em unless you are on a laptop and need NM to get encrypted access points
to work.

[1] Me being someone who doesn't hang out on sites watching flash videos
of dancing hamsters and other similar dodgy content likely to be
carriers of various nasty bits.

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