Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:24:26 +0100 schrieb fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > Nothing negative, just that Alsa provides the alsa-tools > package as a unit, and in AUR things are split up into > envy24control, hdspmixer, etc. It just seems more work ! alsa-tools are split in AUR just to reduce the dependencies and to save space because every tool in alsa-tools is only for one sound or audio card and must be compiled separately anyway. And if you e.g. have an ice1712 based audio card like the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 you only need the GTK based envy24control but no other tool of this package. This way you save diskspace and you don't need Qt as a dependency which is a dependency for at least one other tool and therefore for the complete alsa-tools package. In the repos this could be implemented by a split package or probably by optdepends. Greetings, Heiko
