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

[Gustavo Franco]

On 4/3/06, Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

+1. :)

> > 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 :(

Can you draft your ideas somewhere in the wiki ? I'll have some more time for
ltsp related work after May.


Thanks,
-- stratus