So I see basically that we need a guidline on how mageia deals with Spinoffs first.
If all task are in the repos, I can understand those who say that there are to many task. If the spinoffs are handled as separate projects, we could provide a cusom .iso and different sound-tasks, that people download from the spinoff page. The a 2010/12/18 Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreute...@googlemail.com> > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:04 AM, herman <her...@aeronetworks.ca> wrote: > >> >> 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. >> >> > The basic music tasks such as soundserver (pulse or alsa), music/video > player should already be in the main distribution included like we know > already from existing distributions. > What I would like is a task-package which includes everything needed for a > working multimedia computer such like mpd for music streaming, and something > similar for video streaming over a network. > > And maybe we can also make a similar task for the creators out there? > > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Greetings > > Daniel Kreuter > > > >
