[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Sat Dec 18 10:03:36 CET 2010

So I see basically that we need a guidline on how mageia deals with Spinoffs
+first.
+
+If all task are in the repos, I can understand those who say that there are
+to many task.
+If the spinoffs are handled as separate projects, we could provide a cusom
+.iso and different sound-tasks, that people download from the spinoff page.
+The a
+
+2010/12/18 Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at googlemail.com>
+
+>
+>
+> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:04 AM, herman <herman at aeronetworks.ca> wrote:
+>
+>>
+>> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:30 -0700, Frank Kober wrote:
+>> > I'm here for sure. Doing subtasks was one of the ideas coming in from
+>> several linuxmao.org members. This idea got rejected from the mdv people
+>> with the argument that there are already too many task metapackages. It was
+>> difficult to get a common opinion on it by the musicians anyway, but finally
+>> the most useful division would be a bit in the sense of the current
+>> task-sound-studio, i.e. use cases: Audio recording, Audio synthesis and
+>> composing, live tools (loopers, etc..), sounds (soundfonts in particular
+>> which are large data files), video?.
+>> > But you will see that it is not so easy to make coherent and useful
+>> subsets. Another example would be the ubuntu studio grouping.
+>> >
+>> > I think there should be just a clear separation of music consumer tasks
+>> and music creation tasks, and already the latter includes some of the first
+>> one...
+>> IMHO the most important thing is to make a basic package that works.
+>> The user can then add other things they like.  As things are, it is very
+>> difficult for an ordinary mortal to make a working sound system by
+>> installing individual packages.
+>>
+>>
+> The basic music tasks such as soundserver (pulse or alsa), music/video
+> player should already be in the main distribution included like we know
+> already from existing distributions.
+> What I would like is a task-package which includes everything needed for a
+> working multimedia computer such like mpd for music streaming, and something
+> similar for video streaming over a network.
+>
+> And maybe we can also make a similar task for the creators out there?
+>
+>
+> --
+> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+>
+> Greetings
+>
+> Daniel Kreuter
+>
+>
+>
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