pulse-rt by default?

[Brennan Ashton]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 22:20 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 17:56 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:48:46 +0200
> > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 05.10.08 20:29, Jon Masters (jonathan at jonmasters.org) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Can I suggest that we consider adding new desktop users on a fresh
> > > > install to pulse-rt by default? Or, put another way, does anyone
> > > > think this is a particularly bad idea to be doing?
> > > 
> > > It's a security issue.
> 
> It's not a security issue if you're on a single user desktop/laptop, and
> therefore something that could be configured up during installation. One
> idea I had was to suggest having install "profiles" available - I'd love
> to have an anaconda option I can click that will:
> 
> * Add me to sudoers automatically (first thing I do on every Fedora/RHEL
> system, and the most annoying thing missing from a standard install)
> * Add me to various groups useful to desktop self-admin, etc.
> * (Disable SELinux policy with a vengeance :P)
> 
> > > Unfortunately on Linux we don't have anything in place that would
> > > allow "safe" usage of realtime features.
> 
> That's not true. You already have PolicyKit support and even look to see
> if you have a policy. So that authorization could just be setup in
> advance for pulseaudio if it's running on a desktop system.
> 
> > There have been steps in the
> > > right direction (like real-time group scheduling, RLIMIT_RTTIME), but
> > > that is still a royal PITA to use or trivial to circumvent.
> 
> > yeah it's better to not need realtime, and just have a good enough
> > scheduler instead ;-)
> 
> I agree about the longer term.
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 
I have been fighting to get realtime working for a while on my computer
I use for composition, the normal scheduler just does not cut it for
this.  While I agree that in the long run fixing that is the solution,
in the sort term it would be nice not to leave these type of users out
on a limb, or looking at other distros that do it by default.

just my $0.02