Re: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/jack for jack protocol implementations

[Luca Barbato]

On 04/02/16 15:05, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've been supporting jack sound server [1] for a long time.
> Currently, we're supporting jack1 as
> media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit. However, jack2 has been out for
> quite some time.
>
> As its name does not imply, jack2 is not really the successor of jack1
> but rather another implementation of the same protocol [2]. As such, I
> don't think it is wise to add jack2 as an update to jack1 in
> media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit but rather to add a new package
> (media-sound/jack2) along with a virtual that packages can depend onto.
>
> Proposed ebuild for the virtual is here:
> https://github.com/suhr/gentoo/commit/1aebd8e72ff4ff2665761fc3b07f796945aa0943
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexis.
>
>
> [1] http://www.jackaudio.org/
> [2]
> https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/Q_difference_jack1_jack2
>

Sounds a good idea.