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No, I didn't ask for a fucking GUI sudo with xml and javascript and local privilege escalation to root. I asked my computer to do something as basic as play sound, something that worked for decades without GUI sudo. Developers said they want to use pulseaudio for that. Whatever, if it finally plays audio without breaking every week. I don't have time to vet every package in every distro, and I didn't know it depends on a GUI sudo.

> If these libraries shipped with your distro, you asked for them.

If a bomb ships with a package you ordered, you asked for it.

Or maybe not? Maybe I didn't ask for it but a bunch of devs decided that (quoting you) "the users all want" it and I wasn't there to keep tabs on them.

And now that I know better, yes, I am looking for alternative distros because the ones I've been using include too many things I didn't ask for.

parent foxfluff 4 years ago

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