Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>>> So, why do we need this in the default install? >>> Why do we need this at all? Is it time for a block-pkg ? >> Well, I could argue why do we need csh, or 20 IRC clients, or apps written >> in Motif/lesstif, or applets that check for new mail by parsing a RSS feed >> in perl (with passwords written to the local disk, yay), and a variety of >> things that I'm sure other people have a need for. Doesn't necessarily mean >> they should be *blocked*, just not in the default install. > > Yes, but if system-config-soundcard isn't actually solving any issues, > are we just maintaining it out of anger? At some point we really need > to ask, what is the point of having this software? Has it outlived it's > usefulness? We can orphan it and see if somebody wants to pick it up, > but we can ask them the same thing, why? On my Fedora 8 laptop, a Dell using an Intel "soundcard" with snd-intel8x0, system-config-soundcard contains the only volume control that actually has enough gain to make sound audible. I would not have been able to use sound without system-config-soundcard. I don't know how much Fedora 9 has improved, but I sure hope we don't delete something that I found to be vital. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
