[LAU] I just don't know Jack anymore.

[Ken Restivo]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:17:37PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
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> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Ken Restivo wrote:
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>> Jack/Ardour's allergy to distributions in general (and Debian in 
>> particular) has made this harder to manage. If I could go "sudo apt-get 
>> install jack-flavor-of-the-month" and it switches over, then go "sudo 
>> apt-get install jackd-original" to switch back, then it's no problemo.
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> Jack+Debian:  This situation will be improving.  Probably won't be in 
> time for squeeze, though.  Not a simple problem to fix, though... because 
> applications have to link to /something/ -- and the library follows the 
> jackd implementation.
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Wait, what? All the apps have to be recompiled in order to switch jack implementations?

If that's the case, then having multiple jack implementations out there is just short of insane.

-ken