Re: RFS: qastools

["Sebastian H." <vand2@gmx.de>]

Hi Benoît

> Why regroup qasmixer and qasconfig into one package? Wouldn't it be
> better having them Recommend each other? It doesn't seem like an
> improvement forcing users to install both tools instead of giving them
> the choice. But maybe I'm missing something.

The short answer is, it makes package maintenance much easier and
is less error prone.

A somewhat longer explanation includes:

1. All QasTools share certain amounts of code. But it's not worth it
   creating a library package (with all the hassles) for that.

2. All QasTools share a single localization database (app_xy.qm).
   It's a pain to organize translations for a small application.
   A single translation file for a small number of applications is
   much easier to deal with for translators and maintainers.

3. QasTools may grow by a few applications. It's very likely that
   potential users will install/use more than one of them anyway.
   The applications themselves are not very large.

4. This goes in the tradition of alsa-tools, alsa-tools-gui and
   alsa-utils. They all bring a small number of applications wich
   cover certain aspects of ALSA.

I hope this makes it a bit more clear.

Regards,

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Sebastian Holtermann