Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:10:12 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It's not a depency in any way. I play sound just fine with OSS drivers
> without the ALSA mess getting in my way anywhere.
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:50:10 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Without alsa-base installed, hotplug and discover will load both
> modules, resulting in various disasters depending on the hardware. It's
> not because things work with your setup that they are suitable for a
> stable Debian release.
In theory I guess there should be an oss package that was the homologue of
the alsa-base package. It would include files that would blacklist ALSA
modules, just as alsa-base blacklists OSS modules. These packages would
Conflict with each other and 2.6 kernel-image packages would Depend on
their disjunction.
An alternative is to drop ALSA modules from the 2.6 kernel-image packages.
--
Thomas Hood
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