Re: Bug#19920: Packages Optional, should be Extra
In article <[🔎] E0yFjc6-0005OQ-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Other programs *should* use it. It takes over /dev/audio when it runs,
>> because it is a server. Because most programs that use sound have
>> their own small server, only one sound program can run at once. With
>> the rational you gave, *all* packages that have sound should be extra,
>> because they are preventing each other. NAS is providing a solution
>> for this problem if you build the programs to use it (but then you get
>> other problems, as NAS is slower than direct access).
>
>No, because if you install NAS it hogs the sound device even when
>you're not using it. Other sound using programs don't have this
>property.
>
>Until it's policy that all sound-using programs should use NAS (and
>this seems unlikely any time soon) then NAS as currently shipped is
>buggy because it makes it impossible to run other sound-using programs
>on machines where it is installed, unlike all other sound-using
>programs.
>
>Therefore it should be Extra.
Agreed for now, and as I've volunteered to take over maintenance I'll move
it there. The package could do with a lot of work, and will probably
prompt me to post here a few times asking for advice/preferences. Maybe it
would even be possible for a patched nas to _not_ grab the audio device,
but instead to open it only when necessary. I'll be investigating this.
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