Re: [LAU] [PlanetCCRMA] Mixer Woes

I'm running Gentoo and fluxbox for precisely the reasons you describe.

Alex.

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Joe Hartley <jh@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:28:38 +0200
> Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> Anyone knows how to get rid of that ~/.gvfs thing
>> and its associated daemons ? Permanently ? I don't
>> run Gnome so I don't want it any more than I want
>> DesktopDirs, console session managers and other
>> hideous things that slowly but surely are turning
>> Linux into something that is even worse than Windows.
>>
>> According to my book the .gvfs thing is malware, as
>> it even prevents root from cleaning up the mess.
>
> THIS.
>
> I run a very simple system.  I use Fluxbox as my window manager, and
> try to strip my machines (especially my studio machine) down to the
> bare essentials.  In the past (up to about FC7), it's been easy to
> run only the stuff I want running.  No sendmail needed?  Gone.
>
> Packages like pulseaudio and gvfs are only getting in the way of
> doing what I want to do, or take up resources I would rather not
> give a single bit up to having them run.
>
> Fons is right on the money when he says that Linux is being turned
> into something as bad as Windows.  (Sorry, Fons, it couldn't be worse!)
>
> I thought I was free from having to "roll my own" stuff a long time
> ago.  I really don't want to go back to spending days compiling and
> configuring just because so many things in the current distros can't
> be turned off.  I like Fedora, I really do, but I'd love to see it
> give more control back to the user and not assume I need every package
> under the sun.
>
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