[LAD] Re: Pipewire

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 02:47:53PM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: On <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_config.html>: "One of the design goals of PipeWire is to be able to closely control and configure all aspects of the processing graph." If that is true, then nothing of what I mentioned before should be a problem. To 'closely control' things IMHO includes having the option to disable anything automatic. If for example I can't tell pipewire to not use a particular sound card that is the exact opposite of providing control. That's another issue which I didn't even want to mention originally. As long as you consider only the files and assume that either only one of them is used or able to completely override the others the situation is clear. It's a good system, allowing the distro to provide 'convenient' defaults, while still allowing the admin or user to override them. But what about the drop-in directories ? If for example I have a ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf, indicating that I want to take matters into my own hands, does that mean that the files in the drop-in directories in /etc and /usr/share are ignored as well ? Or do I have to override each and every one of them ? The real semantics of this are not clear at all. And then there is this: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pipewire_conf_5.html> "Dictionary sections are merged, overriding properties if they already existed, and array sections are appended to." So can a 'user' config really override the 'distro' one ? This sort of thing has indeed become 'standard linux', it's not just a pipewire issue. Systemd is an order of magnitude worse. Ciao, -- FA