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On Sunday 18 April 2010 00:14:31 Philipp wrote:

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> 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

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> > 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.=

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Unless that server-package is not installed:-) That is why these two should=

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separate. Sometimes you really don't want to run jack. But the=20

developers/packagers of that music-player don't have a separate plugin and=

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package for the jack-output. So you need the jack-lib to install the player=

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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

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> 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 an=

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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 fo=

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users and packagers...
Have fun,
Arnold
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