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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
