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

[Otavio Salvador]

vagrant at freegeek.org (Vagrant Cascadian) writes:

>> 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.

Agree on that.

> 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?

humm ... I hope I have time to implement my vendor idea :(

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