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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New virtual: virtual/jack for jack protocol implementations
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:58:04
Message-Id: 20160208115746.3e610e33@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: New virtual: virtual/jack for jack protocol implementations by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:48:22 +0200
2 Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
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6 > However one concern with the virtual - if it is not interchangeable
7 > (same library naming and ABI), then you have to rebuild things against
8 > the other provider, and hopefully that can be set up to be more
9 > automatic somehow; as the virtual will be satisfied with either of
10 > them, so the user could exchange them without actual consumers linking
11 > to it noticing. Some thoughts into that aspect, if even just some
12 > warning to user, would be good.
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14 Yes, the point is that is has same library name and ABI.
15 Diffing installed headers show a very few symbols that are jack2 only,
16 but packages needing them should depend on jack2 not the virtual, if
17 there are any.