Re: [Jack-Devel] jack - audio group - package install

On 01/24/2012 04:14 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:

> Those who have never had to administer groups will not know they need to
> upon installing jack. I'm often helping people solve this on irc, so it
> is a definitely a continuous problem. One which can easily be solved by
> reading jack faq, but on the other hand, wouldn't it be great if they
> didn't need to?

no. what we need to avoid is that users remain unaware of the problem 
unless they do a web search. the package installation process should pop 
up a note about the groups and realtime issue, and just tell them to 
read the faq.

users who don't read faqs when they encounter a problem even though they 
know about the existence of a faq should be punished.

guidance for users is important and productive, but nobody needs users 
who claim a right to ignorance, they don't help to improve the software, 
all they do is waste other people's time.

institutionalizing a user's alleged right to ignorance by adding 
behind-the-curtains magic (which hurts other users who do not wish to be 
ignorant) is an abomination punishable with 10 years of network 
administration duty in a windows vista shop.

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