On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:30 -0700, Frank Kober wrote:
> I'm here for sure. Doing subtasks was one of the ideas coming in from several
> linuxmao.org members. This idea got rejected from the mdv people with the
> argument that there are already too many task metapackages. It was difficult
> to get a common opinion on it by the musicians anyway, but finally the most
> useful division would be a bit in the sense of the current task-sound-studio,
> i.e. use cases: Audio recording, Audio synthesis and composing, live tools
> (loopers, etc..), sounds (soundfonts in particular which are large data
> files), video?.
> But you will see that it is not so easy to make coherent and useful subsets.
> Another example would be the ubuntu studio grouping.
>
> I think there should be just a clear separation of music consumer tasks and
> music creation tasks, and already the latter includes some of the first one...
IMHO the most important thing is to make a basic package that works.
The user can then add other things they like. As things are, it is very
difficult for an ordinary mortal to make a working sound system by
installing individual packages.
