On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 01:34:36PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > What I found shows both qsynth and fluidsynth depend on jackd, since I did > not have jackd installed and both refused to run, with the same error > message, to the effect that "jackd could not be found or started." > > It would seem that these two packages should depend on the jackd package, > but don't.
They depend on the libjackd libraries, indirectly. There's a possible use-case where you have fluidsynth on one computer but the jackd process on another (I think), in which case you may not need/want jackd installed in the same place as fluidsynth. I suspect this is a very rare use-case. Perhaps libfluidsynth1 or another package should Recmmends: jackd at the very least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141115144342.ga23...@chew.redmars.org
