On 11 June 2015 at 21:53, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoel...@umlaeute.mur.at> wrote: > On 06/11/2015 09:23 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: >>> synthesis at all; darn - did i just here me volunteer to maintain a >>> "puredata" task?) >> >> :) >> >> I don't think we need per-application-ecosystem metapackages. > > but right now the user does not have a possibility to install an entire > ecosystem like Pd's. > which i think is a flaw. > > if my use-case of meta-packages is a single pkg installation to get me > running for a given task, then i find a package that pulls in an entire > ecosystems of more relevance than a a broad selection of packages that > could be useful in that task. > > but maybe Pd is a bit of an outlier here, with 70+ (binary) packages > that all belong to the same ecosystem.
Yes, I don't think we have another ecosystem with so many packages. > > and of course i'm biased here. > i do believe that Debian should have a meta-package for the entire > pd-universe; and so i thought that the multimedia-blends would fit the bill. In light of the above, it indeed might. > >> Non-soundsynth packages like gem should of course not be in the >> soundsynth package, maybe we need a videosynth package? >> > > i would have put it into the "video" task, but now i see that this is > full with video *players* (and the occasional vjing and converter tool). > > so actually i would split "video" in multiple packages ("videoplayers", > "videosynth", "vjing",...) and have the original video package > Depends/Recommends these. Good idea. >>> - ffmulticonverter >> Quite possibly you need to transcode your resulting audio for distribution? >but that's not a "recording" task, it's "postproduction" (which comes >after the *mixing* task). Indeed. Feel free to correct things. As I said when I almost dropped the tasks and Ross has said now again, the current categorizations are not really ok. I unfortunately am out of time to invest much effort into this. > anyhow: can't a package be in multiple tasks? Yes, it can. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers