Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:10:12 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Davide, would you agree with making gnome-media depend on something like
> "alsa-base | kernel-image-2.4", to ensure sound is working properly upon
> installation?
I don't see why gnome-media should be involved. This problem has nothing
specifically to do with GNOME. Also, the dependency you suggest would
prevent people who install non-Debian 2.4 kernels from using OSS.
Here is another idea. We create a new binary package
"sound-system-chooser" which contains blacklists for both OSS and ALSA and
provides a debconf interface that the administrator can use to disable
either or both of the sound systems. Blacklists would be removed from
alsa-base. k-i 2.6 and alsa-base would both Depend on
sound-system-chooser. This would solve another problem with the current
alsa-base, viz., that removing it isn't enough to enable OSS again --
alsa-base has to be purged in order to remove the hotplug blacklist file
that it contains. sound-system-chooser could be generated from
the alsa-driver source package.
Anyone see anything wrong with this idea?
P.S. I apologize for all my non-threading posts on this topic. My webmain
interface apparently doesn't support In-Reply-To headers.
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Thomas Hood
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