Re: pkg/30920: audio/mpg321 is missing a dependency on audio/libao-oss

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/30920; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck%ece.cmu.edu@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/30920: audio/mpg321 is missing a dependency on audio/libao-oss
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:50:55 +0200

 On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:34:42PM -0400, Chuck Cranor wrote:
 >     so the high-level issue that concerns me is that we used to
 > have an 'auto/mpg321' package that worked fine out of the box,
 > and now mpg321 no longer works out of the box.
 > 
 >     speaking as a user, all i care about is the mpg321 application
 > working when i install it...  I don't care about libao or what options 
 > it installs, as long as my appliations work by default i am happy.
 > 
 >     even if there was a MESSAGE (that would scroll unread off my 
 > screen), the current config asks us lazy pkgsrc users to think too 
 > much rather than providing a reasonable default working mpg321 
 > application.
 
 Perhaps the -oss and -sun packages should be folded back in to the
 libao package as options, with a useful per-platform default setting.
 I'll leave that up to jmmv, who separated the package in the first
 place.
  Thomas