Bug#612887: cmus: please avoid the dependency on several sound

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:12:55AM +0100, Philipp Schafft wrote:
>reflum,
>
>I'm still confused about this. Please not that I'm not the maintainer 
>nor anyone else offical for the package, so it's safe to just ignore 
>me.

Your partitipation here is great.  You need not be an expert to 
contribute - simply ensuring that the bugreport is sensible is valuable 
too!  So please keep up the good work here :-)


>If you think this is a libroar bug please reassign the bug to libroar 
>but I do not yet see where libdnet and #608807 come into play. Can you 
>please clearify this? libdnet does not depend or recommend on any 
>daemon.

Ah - you are right: I was talking about a different issue:

  1) cmus depends on libroar
  2) libroar depends on libdnet
  3) libdnet recommends libdnet-common <- bug#608807
  4) libdnet-common wreaks havoc on tcp networks

Your problem reported here is not that dnet wreaks havoc, but that 
multiple sound daemons are pulled in when installing cmus.

Issue is similarly chained, thougH:

  1) cmus depends on libroar
  2) libroar recommends roaraudio-server

This bug against cmus is real: cmus starts a chain which leads to 
unsuitable behaviour for most users: It is wrong to assume that most 
systems installing the roar _library_ will want to run the roar 
_daemon_.

It is a bad solution, however, to avoid libroar.  The better approach 
IMO is to *not* change the packaging of cmus and *not* reassign this 
bugreport, but instead a) file _another_ bugreport against libroar on 
lowering to only suggest its daemon, and b) retitle this bug and tag it 
as depending on that newly filed one.


  - Jonas

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