Module submission - vorbis-tools

[Chad R. Kittel]

Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com> [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:22:39 +0000]:
> On Monday 29 August 2005 11:15 pm, Chad R. Kittel wrote:
> > dveatch at woh.rr.com [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:31:37 +0000]:
> > > module name       : vorbis-tools
> > > suggested section : audio
> > > update (y/n)      : n
> > > bugfix (y/n)      : n
> > > security (y/n)    : n
> > >
> > >
> > > Adds flac and speex as optional depends
> > >
> > >
> > > dveatch
> >
> > I can agree with speex.  What i am worried about is the request to
> > have vorbis-tools depend on flac.  flac already has a depends on
> > vorbis-tools.  Maybe that isn't right of flac?  either way, adding
> > flac as a depends of vorbis-tools introduces a dependancy loop, and
> > that is not a nice thing to have.
> 
> Quite right, I should have looked in flac before doing that. 
> 
> Should a lib depend on a utility, etc? Probably not but then I guess
> it depends on the lib and it's use. In this case would it make more
> sense to have flac as an optional one in case for whatever reason
> vorbis-tools is not wanted? I don't recall if flac will compile
> without it but a guess is it will.

Don't know if this was meant for the list as well, but i'll toss it back
to the list for ya.

My guess is that flac should only really be depending on libogg.  If
you want to look into that, that would be great.  If it is true that
flac should only depend on libogg then it would be fine to add flac as
an optional depends on vorbis-tools.

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