[vorbis] RPM dependency rant

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Morton wrote:

> > So it'd be really nice to have a note on the download page explaining
> > what system the RPMs are actually built for, and where to get the
> > nonstandard libraries that they depend on.
> 
> Hacking libao and the vorbis tools to fail gracefully when you try to use 
> capabilities that it's built for but lacks library support for would be good 
> (if it hasn't already been done). Then the optional libraries like libasound 
> could be drop from the dependency list entirely.

Actually, libao was designed that way from (nearly) the beginning.  The RPMS
unfortunately don't reflect that.  I send an email to the RPM maintainer
requesting a change, but haven't heard back.


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Stan Seibert

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