On 04/02/16 15:05, Alexis Ballier wrote: > Hi, > > We've been supporting jack sound server [1] for a long time. > Currently, we're supporting jack1 as > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit. However, jack2 has been out for > quite some time. > > As its name does not imply, jack2 is not really the successor of jack1 > but rather another implementation of the same protocol [2]. As such, I > don't think it is wise to add jack2 as an update to jack1 in > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit but rather to add a new package > (media-sound/jack2) along with a virtual that packages can depend onto. > > Proposed ebuild for the virtual is here: > https://github.com/suhr/gentoo/commit/1aebd8e72ff4ff2665761fc3b07f796945aa0943 > > Best regards, > > Alexis. > > > [1] http://www.jackaudio.org/ > [2] > https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/Q_difference_jack1_jack2 >
Sounds a good idea.
