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thujone

Member

From: Prague, Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-01-01

Posts: 18

JACK-related packages cleanup

Hello.
I just adopted the jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus package and am contacting the current maintainers of jack-audio-connection-kit-mp and jack-audio-connection-kit-svn to suggest the following minor enhancements.

1. Renaming -- by uploading a new package and asking for removal of the old one -- consistently with the jack package in extra, this is the scheme I'm proposing:

   • jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus → jack-dbus (or alternatively jackdbus)

   • jack-audio-connection-kit-mp → jack2 (or alternatively jackmp)

   • jack-audio-connection-kit-svn → jack-svn

2. Adding the line

   provides=('jackdbus')

   to Jack PKGBUILDs using the --dbus option, to ease the job of those who maintain any package depending on the `jackdbus` executable.

What are the community thoughts (especially the Pro Audio people' ones) on this?

Cheers.

kaimerra

Member

Registered: 2010-04-10

Posts: 6

Re: JACK-related packages cleanup

Correct if I am wrong here, but I thought Jack2 and Jack with dbus were one in the same?

Did dbus support get moved to jack1?

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: JACK-related packages cleanup

No, jackdmp (jack2) and jack are alternative implementations of jack. Both come in 'classic' versions and 'dbus' versions. jackdmp defaults to dbus, since its developer prefers that. Jack defaults to classic (run a single executable with switches), but can be run using the dbus control mechanism created by jack2's developer.

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