> <snip> (proposal to remove snd_ prefix for each module option)
Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a convenient method is to check and rewrite /etc/modules.conf > automatically when alsa-driver is installed. (btw, in the case of > debian, do we need to check another path, too?) Yes. I'm a recent (happy) convert to Debian 3.0, Woody. I'm working at learning it, but not an expert. I recently studied the packaging of ALSA, which is quite complex, and I believe this is correct... Debian installs pieces of modules.conf in the /etc/modutils subdirectory on a per-package basis. The install scripts run "update-modules" to combine these files into /etc/modules.conf. In the case of ALSA, /etc/modutils/alsa is actually a symlink to either /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 or /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 since both ALSA versions are supported and the contents are incompatible. Debian has a policy of handling user-editable configuration files *very* carefully. When installing an update, the package scripts are expected to preserve user edits and somehow deal with any format changes, too. When a package is removed, the config files are left in place so user changes will not be lost in case the package is re-installed in the future. To actually erase config files, one must use the --purge option. In general, every package is expected to be capable of upgrading both its previous version and the one before that. These are far higher standards of compatibility than ALSA has so far tried to achieve. My impression is that the Debian maintainers have been working very hard to deal with ALSA's perennial instability. > i'm not sure whether it's good manner or not, though. Best to leave this alone. Anything else causes many people to hassle with fixing something that's not broken in the first place. Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
