Dave Patterson wrote: > Dragan Noveski wrote: > >> hi to the list! >> >> i am running an originally demudi box, which with the time became a >> custom-debian testing one. >> in last summer i removed everything from my machine what was depending >> an a dabian-jackd package and reinstalled from sources (lot of audio >> stuff, kde etc...). this action tooks me about a month, but it turned >> good, cause all my audio software is not anymora dependent by the debian >> packages! >> > > I'm curious - why are you doing so much work to abandon debian apt? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ the case above, i wanted to test a newer jackd. since it can be only one jackd existing on the system, it was not possible for me to replace only the jackd, but i had to replace everything else, what depends on jackd. lot of audio stuff needs a newer jackd as it is in debian to compile! the dpkg system is nice and confortable for me up to some point, but sometimes it creates some dependencies which i would like to avoid. lets say the appi A needs a library B to compile. but if i want to update the libB, dpkg want to update jackd or alsa! this two components i would like to update at that time, when i think it is a right thing and not when my machine (dpkg) "thinks" it shoul be updated. in debian, it always takes a lot of time, since an appi is implemented, and those are (in the audio work) mostly very old versions than. i also think, that one time setting up alsa "manually", i get a kind of knowledge, that i don´t get clicking in synaptic? are this reasons, you can understand? cheers, doc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
