Hi, On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:03:46AM -0700, James Blanford wrote: > Package: setmixer > Version: 27DEC94ds1-1 > Severity: Wishlist > > I have yet to find any sound mixer application that can properly control > all my sound devices. With setmixer conflicting with alsa-base and > aumix, I loose functionality. Removing the functionality that saves and > restores mixer settings on boot-up and the resulting conflicts would be > a better solution than conflicting with similar programs and thereby > leaving Debian users with one less option. Just because a program _can_ > be run at system startup doesn't mean it _has_ to be. > > I can have multiple types of web browsers and editors and all manner of > programs, why can't I have multiple types of mixers? > > The result of the recent changes is that one more useful piece of > software - one more option - cannot be installed. On the other hand, if > the initscripts and conflicts were removed, functionality would be > retained and I would still have all my options. If someone wants to run > setmixer at boot, it's relatively easy to put a little script in > /etc/rc.boot. It's also reasonable to assume that someone wanting to use > an obscure commandline program like setmixer would be capable of doing > so. An example startup script could even be placed in > /usr/share/doc/setmixer/examples. > > Referencing bug # 202151, if the maintainer believes, "...looks like > aumix has improved since I uploaded setmixer, so there is not much > specific need for setmixer anymore", he should probably give up the > program.
Any news on this issue? It seems to also be a duplicate of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368678 and both bug reports are valid, IMO. I also recently installed setmixer (on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, but I don't think that matters) and was surprised to see aumix being removed, which works just fine on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (as does setmixer). There's no reason at all to conflict here, having multiple mixer applications installed at the same time is perfectly valid. Thanks, Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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