[LAU] Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

[Simon Wise]

> *?* I don't need Jack from a repository, I just asked, because this
> would be less work.

If you compile it yourself then ensuring it fits with the other packages is a 
bit trickier ... it is the interaction between libraries and between packages 
that a distribution solves for you. If you prefer to compile most of the 
multimedia stuff yourself, then staying with debian stable as your base could be 
good. You may find yourself compiling a number of the libraries because they 
won't be the right version in stable.

/opt   and  /usr/local  are the place to put locally compiled things, /usr/local 
if you are using the libraries provided by the distribution, /opt if you are 
also compiling the libraries so you can keep them separate. Ardour is taking 
this path with its ardour3 alpha releases, putting everything in a folder so 
that it does not rely on the distribution libraries at all. The packages are 
large, and compiling this is not easy.


But ... if your plan is to compile yourself, consider gentoo instead - it is a 
distribution put together with compiling your own stuff in mind, and much more 
flexible and suited to this approach, with ways to manage the process and create 
your own templates etc. I believe that there is an active audio community there 
which would be quite helpful.

> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main

I think that mixing debian.org and debian-multimedia.org is a mistake for your 
purposes, because the debian-multimedia.org libraries will replace the 
debian.org ones, and this often causes problems for the other audio packages 
that are not on debian-multimedia.org, and you will be using plenty of them.

YMMV.

Simon.