drew Roberts wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:48:11 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:40:58PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>>> Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ideally, jackdbus shouldn't even allow jackd binary to
>>>> exist in $PATH (and vice versa), to prevent the exact
>>>> kind of situation that Fons is experiencing.
>>>>
>> Programs that do that kind of things have a name
>> here: malware. I'm the boss on my system, and I
>> will decide what goes into $PATH. Just as I decide
>> which filesystems get mounted and where, and how
>> permissions are set.
>>
>
> Fons, I think some people have misunderstood some things you have said in this
> thread. In this case I think you misunderstood Patrick. (Or I did - not a bad
> possibility.)
>
> I think what he was saying was that jackdbus would check for jackd in $PATH
> and complain bitterly / refuse to sintall / whatever. Not that it would try
> and control what $PATH was set to. Or perhaps you got that and I
> misunderstood your objection.
>
Hi Drew,
If you are referring to me, then I would like to remove myself from the
dbus issue. I am currently concerned about PA usage for non technical
users and/or "Ralf Maldorf's" attitude towards Linux Audio as a platform.
Cheers.
-- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. > If there is proper understanding and objections / differences still remain, > that is one thing. So often in life we are disagreeing with what we think > people mean when if fact we may agree with what they actually mean. > >> Ciao. >> > > all the best, > > drew > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Wed May 20 00:15:02 2009
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