[LAU] Audio Distribution Proposal...

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM, carmen <_ at whats-your.name> wrote:
> On Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 12:21:52PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> jrogers wrote:
>>
>> > - Manual install (like arch Linux) is fine and probably preferred. (manual is
>> > fine, but complete default instructions would be needed)
>>
>> Regardless of what may or may not be wrong with Ubuntu Studio,
>> I think you should still choose to use a system with debian
>> packaging.
>>
>> Yes, it has its faults, but no other packaging system comes near
>> it for ease of distribution, security, reliability, upgrade-ability
>> and so on.
>
> are you joking? its a hodge podge of perl scripts and baroque practices
>
> if you want a 'canonical', 'trusted' binary of fairly recent vintage of a somewhat popular app, im sure you can't go wrong
>
>
> but for stuff like audio where 98% of the stuff you want to instal resides in Git/Hg,
>
> ive had much greater availability and ease with two solutions:
>
> proaudio overlay (for gentoo) and Paludis (for handling of hg/git/vcs depchain updating)
>
> and the AUR / archaudio.org project for Arch..

I cannot imagine where this thread is really going. It should be fun to read...

I guess folks who don't run Gentoo generally have such a negative
view, but I really like it for this audio application. +1 for the
pro-audio overlay. +1 for slotting. +1 for being able to create your
own overalys. I built this machine 5-6 years ago and have never had to
do an upgrade. Just keeps running with a few commands.

It's hard for me to imagine using a distro anymore that doesn't fully
consider the user building ALL code from scratch, like Gentoo. Sure I
often wish I didn't have to build things, but I won't use a distro
that doesn't support me to do it from scratch on all programs. It
shouldn't be considered out of the ordinary.

- Mark