Bug#356986: [Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#356986: ltsp-server: ltsp should not be dependent on sound

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:35:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Jeff]
> > I use LTSP for work where sound at the terminals is not something I
> > want. All ESD and alsa dependencies should be unnecessary.
 
> The LTSP packages are supposed to work out of the box, and sound is
> intended to be one of the parts of LTSP that should work as much as
> possible out of the box.  You are free to ignore the sound facilities,
> but the default should depend on sound packages.

> If I could find a well working way to detect if sound is present and
> then be able to enable sound by default on the clients with sound
> support, I will do this.  Making sound more optional and dropping the
> depend to the sound packages is not planned.

i don't see why a server-side dependency is required- the terminals do
not even have a dependency on any sound utilities anymore. this seems
like a perfect use of the Recommends field- something that on most
installs would be present, but not absolutely mandatory.

there should be a way to get the bare-bones install, without any bells
or whistles, that doesn't involve hacking the ltsp-build-client script.

if the defaults are to install all the bells and whistles, why make it
hard for people to customize to their particular needs?

live well,
  vagrant