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From:
Geoff Steckel <gwes@oat.com>
Subject:
Re: Investigating adding functionality to doas
To:
Aaron Rainbolt <arainbolt@kfocus.org>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:16:43 -0500

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  • Peter N. M. Hansteen:

    Investigating adding functionality to doas

  • On 11/29/24 10:30 AM, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
    > On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:06:52 +0100
    >
    > it's fine for a user to have to configure things like doas manually.
    > That's a great methodology to use, but not all projects are content to
    > only target that userbase. For projects that target users that don't
    > necessarily know how the system works internally, making the user edit
    > doas.conf manually to set up their system isn't an option.
    >
    "know about how the system works internally"
    
    The latest version of Ubuntu replaced pulseaudio with pipewire.
    Touted as a compatible replacement.
    
    That completely broke all the components of my audio system.
    I had to learn how to set up configuration files in four places
    including systemd. Some functions still don't work.
    
    geoff steckel
    
    
    
  • Peter N. M. Hansteen:

    Investigating adding functionality to doas