Package: oss-compat
Severity: wishlist

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:38:49PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > >  * Could the postinst do a modprobe snd instead of hardcoding
> > >    individual module names? I think this would avoid duplicating that
> > >    list of modules between the postinst and the oss-compat file and
> > >    should have the same affect.
> > 
> > No, because that might gratuitously load snd on systems that didn't have any
> > sound support.  Duplicating the list is a minor issue compared to that.
> 
> It shouldn't if you still check to see if snd is already loaded, e.g.:
> 
> --- postinst.orig     2006-10-02 10:55:53.000000000 -0600
> +++ postinst  2006-10-02 10:56:32.000000000 -0600
> @@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
>        Linux)
>          ln -sf /lib/oss-compat/linux /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat
>          if lsmod | grep -q "^snd " ; then
> -          modprobe snd-seq-oss || true
> -          modprobe snd-mixer-oss || true
> -          modprobe snd-pcm-oss || true
> +          modprobe snd || true
>          fi
>        ;;
>      esac
> 
> 
> Of course, if users aren't allowed to modify this file, the only issue
> is the duplicate list of module names which is minor indeed. Thanks
> for the response!

Good point.  Let's make a bug out of it.  =)

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