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

[jeff]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:35:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> tags 356986 + wontfix
> thanks
> 
> [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.

The Debian way is to only install the things you need, and to suggest
things that would work with it. The installation of esound on a system
that doesn't need sound support is rather egregiously bad, IMHO. A lot
of us use LTSP at work. Esound a) takes up memory, b) adds complexity
and the possibility of bugs/crashes that aren't necessary. 

> 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.

What's wrong with a terminal script which just does this:
if esound is installed:
  load esound

everywhere it uses sound? 

> Friendly,
> -- 
> Petter Reinholdtsen
>