[arch-general] alsa-tools

[Heiko Baums]

Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:24:26 +0100
schrieb fons at kokkinizita.net:

> 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