Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, Markus Seeber wrote: Often policy gets in the way of sensible. Some examples: - it would be sensible for debian packagers to include the "includes" with both the jackd1 and jackd2 packages rather than separating out to a *-dev package or at least name the jackd1 *-dev package so it can not be confused for use with jackd2. - it would be sensible if all plugins were packaged staticly linked but policy says otherwise. Audio production on Linux or for that matter on any OS, is a tiny portion of the total users which these policies are made for. Some distros may allow for exceptions to policy, but packaging already takes more effort than creating the software in the first place (at least the small utilities I have made so far), fighting some policy is just not worth it. I think this is one place where it is easier for the developer to supply a staticly linked set of files with a script to install them. The user can download them there rather than expecting their distro to "get it right". -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net