On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:04 AM, herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:30 -0700, Frank Kober wrote: > > I'm here for sure. Doing subtasks was one of the ideas coming in from > several linuxmao.org members. This idea got rejected from the mdv people > with the argument that there are already too many task metapackages. It was > difficult to get a common opinion on it by the musicians anyway, but finally > the most useful division would be a bit in the sense of the current > task-sound-studio, i.e. use cases: Audio recording, Audio synthesis and > composing, live tools (loopers, etc..), sounds (soundfonts in particular > which are large data files), video?. > > But you will see that it is not so easy to make coherent and useful > subsets. Another example would be the ubuntu studio grouping. > > > > I think there should be just a clear separation of music consumer tasks > and music creation tasks, and already the latter includes some of the first > one... > IMHO the most important thing is to make a basic package that works. > The user can then add other things they like. As things are, it is very > difficult for an ordinary mortal to make a working sound system by > installing individual packages. > > The basic music tasks such as soundserver (pulse or alsa), music/video player should already be in the main distribution included like we know already from existing distributions. What I would like is a task-package which includes everything needed for a working multimedia computer such like mpd for music streaming, and something similar for video streaming over a network. And maybe we can also make a similar task for the creators out there? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Greetings Daniel Kreuter
