On Sunday 18 April 2010 00:14:31 Philipp wrote: > Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-04-17 23:15:11 +0200: > >... > > That way your favourite > > music player can have an output plugin that looks for jack and if that is > > not running, looks for pulse and finally choose direct alsa for > > playback... > I don't see why jack needs to be splitted for this, it works just fine > with jack installed in a single package. Example Audioplayer: Aqualung
Because libjack (the same as libpulse) will start jackd if its not running. Unless that server-package is not installed:-) That is why these two should be separate. Sometimes you really don't want to run jack. But the developers/packagers of that music-player don't have a separate plugin and package for the jack-output. So you need the jack-lib to install the player. But you don't need the jack server to run that music player... > In general it seems to be a matter of taste, and while debian folk sees > benefits in it others simply don't think it's worth the trouble. Hm, which distribution apart from gentoo do you know that has jacks libs and server/apps in one package? > IMHO it simply shouldn't get in the way. Thats exactly the not-so-simple point: Some developers make it very hard for users and packagers... Have fun, Arnold
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