[LAD] [Jack-Devel] more jack/qjackctl madness

[drew Roberts]

On Sunday 17 May 2009 05:24:04 Christian wrote:
> Fons Adriaensen schrieb:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:50:55AM +0200, MarcO'Chapeau wrote:
> >> On Sun, 17 May 2009 00:31:41 +0200, Fons Adriaensen
> >> <fons at kokkinizita.net>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> A request to the jackdmp and qjackctl devs:
> >>>
> >>>    PLEASE REMOVE THAT DBUS MADNESS
> >>
> >> Hi Fons,
> >>
> >> As long as there's a compile time switch, I don't see how dbus could
> >> ever be a problem for those who don't want to use it...
> >
> > Compile time ? I'm a simple user installing things from
> > a reputable distro.
> >
> >> and for those who do, I can tell you it works pretty well.
> >
> > Are you serious ?
> >
> > When jackd is autostarted by an app (with the wrong
> > settings, a separate problem), it creates a dbus daemon
> > that seems to prevent qjackctl to start jackd with
> > the right settings. The result is a jackd that does
> > not any way correspond the the setup in qjackctl, and
> > there is no way to escape from this, except by manually
> > killing the daemon. Do you call that 'working pretty
> > well' ?
> >
> > When qjackctl starts displaying ports that don't
> > exist anymore and does not display those that
> > do exist (no problem with jack-0.116.1) do you
> > call that 'working pretty well' ?
> >
> > I'd call it completely broken.
> >
> > Ciao,
>
> Relax man.
> Seems to be a problem of your distribution, compiled everything in the
> package and don't let you choose.
> Contact the distributors of that package for help.
> If you're fed up with these binary distribution issues switch to a
> source based distribution like gentoo.

I think he wants to know why he has to. Why must this be a compile time option 
and not run time configurable?

all the best,

drew