[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Fri Dec 17 13:27:58 CET 2010

Le vendredi 17 décembre 2010 à 12:35 +0100, Sascha Schneider a écrit :
+> Hi list,
+> 
+> I just started to create some task.spec files from the mandriva
+> task-sound-studio for mageia.
+> In contrast to the former taskfile and to most other linux audio
+> distributions I would like to establish a modular system of sound-tasks,
+> that help installing packages, but do not install everything regarded to
+> sound.
+> For I am not a good programmer, I wanted to ask if there are some devs,
+> packagers and mageia-fanatics, that are willing to join me on this mission.
+> 
+> Work to be done:
+> - provide sound packages like hydrogen, ardour, jackit ......
+> - provide TWO good realtimekernel, one for desktop and another for netbooks
+
+Given the fact that each kernel add a certain load on hdlists, I think
+we should really try to avoid their proliferation.
+( kernel represent 33% of the size of contribs hdlist at Mandriva ).
+
+
+> - provide a script or someting like that, that scanns and adds sound
+> specific stuff to the limits.conf, /etc/udev/rules.d and /etc/rc.d/rc.local
+> and other places
+> - provide tasks files that really only install good and necessary sound
+> stuff.
+
+Good luck with deciding what is "good and necessary". You will always
+end frustrating people whose definition of good and necessary to be
+different.
+
+And secondary, I think we should also try to avoid having too much task-
+rpms. Their values is in the fact they allow to quickly install a set of
+rpm without searching in the whole set of rpm. 
+
+If there is too much of them, people while end searching in the various
+task-* rpms, and that seems counter productive at best.
+( ie, searching the task rpm they want to avoid searching rpm they want
+directly ... ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+