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著者: Arnt Karlsen
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] FF pulseaudio hard dependency is here
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:56:22 +0000, KatolaZ wrote in message
<20170308175622.GV1518@???>:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 11:33:30AM -0600, golinux@??? wrote:
> > This is a follow up to this old thread:
> > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20161002.124357.7c39d049.en.html
> >
> > According to this post on FDN -
> > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=638632#p638632 - the hard
> > pulseaudio requirement has now been implemented:
> >
> > "From Firefox 52 onwards, pulseaudio is a hard requirement for
> > sound on linux. Alsa is unsupported and alsa code will be removed
> > in Firefox 54." (from - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c ...
> > 47056#c178 )
> >
> > So heads up that Devuan might need recompile FF for alsa if Debian
> > does not. Of course, the blowback for going down this road could
> > yet change Mozilla's mind. Yeah, right . . .
> >
> > Or maybe another viable alternative will miraculously appear . . .
> >
>
> A cancer does not miraculously stop growing, unfortunately. It is
> clear that the issue is not about choosing systemd or not, rather on
> getting all the potterware or nothing.
>
> :(


..cheer up, we can still use FF as "The NO!!!-Sound Browser" ;o)
and explain the why-nots and whys and how-to-be-stupid and
pass the whiners on to the Debian etc poetterware distro folks.

..some of us HATES noisy ads that needs gas chamber treatment. ;o)

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.