On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:35:31AM +0200, Bernd Ahlers wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber [Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:19:33AM +0200] wrote:
> >We could keep sox slim and self-contained and skip the external
> >components.  We could use the kitchensink approach and include all
> >the external formats.
> >
> >New sox also supports putting various parts including the external
> >formats into modules.  We could multipackage the modules with the
> >dependencies, but having a dozen sox-FOO packages isn't that great
> >either.
> >
> >Ideas?
> >
> From pkg/DESCR:
> 
> "SoX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools."
> 
> Sounds like the kitchensink approach to me. But I also like subpackages
> because we don't need FLAVORS then. Maybe something like in
> sysutils/symon, lots of small sox-FOO packages but also one big package
> with all modules.

imo, sox should be a kitchen sink type application without flavors
or subpackages, except maybe for licensing issues.  maybe just a
no-binary-redist flavor or subpackage.

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