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grandinj on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ t...

Poettering has a strong bias towards making sure bugs get fixed in the right layer, instead of creating forever-living-workarounds in higher layers.

In the bug you reported, however, I noticed that he pushed a commit to work around the underlying bug, so he's not completely impractical.

digi_owl on July 10, 2017 [–]

Unless he can introduce a layer he controls. Observe that rather than work with Alsa to find some way to handle transient audio devices, he introduces Pulseaudio.

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