Re: jackd to be uninstall, do I need it?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

cmetzler@speakeasy.net wrote:

> First of all, if you had any packages installed that had a dependancy
> on jackd, then they'd be listed in the "will be REMOVED" list as well;
> the fact that you don't means you're OK, in principle, unless you've
> installed something from outside the Debian packaging system that
> depends on JACK (e.g. you're running a CVS version of Ardour or
> Rosegarden or LinuxSampler or something like that).  So only you
> can answer the question of whether you need it.

No, I have nothing of this sort. So I am okay after all.

> 
> jackd, aka JACK, JACKit or the "JACK Audio Connection Kit", is a
> low-latency audio connection system/server; it exists to allow
> JACK-aware audio applications to pass audio streams between each
> other.  The list of JACK-aware applications is still pretty short,
> and is mainly limited to pro-audio tools -- and it'll probably stay
> that way, since pro-audio work is really the only stuff that *needs*
> what JACK brings.  For most audio stuff that the typical desktop user
> does, doing stuff through JACK would be overkill and thus really
> unnecessary.

Thanks a ton, this was a quite helpful and informative post.

Best regards,
->HS