[CM] Useful options for packaging and (Re: 2 Qs: snd playing sound serially, and also terminal output suppression)

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Am 6. Jänner 2025 21:25:55 MEZ schrieb Jenweil <HerbertGrimsby at protonmail.com>:
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>Behavior is different from the binary from my package manager, and the sources.
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and then

Am 7. Jänner 2025 22:47:45 MEZ schrieb bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU:
>I think they're using --with-jack (and --with-gmp
>which makes little sense for Snd).
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As the main maintainer of the 'snd' packages for the Debian ecosystem, I guess this is directed at me. 

Personally I have to admit that I am not an avid 'snd' user, so I might miss what makes sense and what does not.
In general, I try to make packages maximally useful, by enabling as many build options as possible.
For snd, we made out three different usecases:
- casual desktop users trying out snd (using pulse audio and a gui)
- power desktop users (using JACK and a gui)
- headless users (using JACK, but without X)


all flavours have flac/speex/ogg/mpg321/timidity and ladspa enabled.
All have GMP enabled, as it seemed like a good idea (possibly useful for advanced users) and no harm done.
(If it doesn't make sense for snd, I wonder why there is an option to support it in the first place).

So i would be very thankful for advice on how to improve the set of "maximally useful" *packaged* snd variants 




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