On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:33:25 +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote: >On 10.12.2017 00:21, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 18:00:32 +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote: >>> But when installing jalv or qtractor for archlinux, because they >>> depend on suil, expect it to pull gtk2, gtk3, qt4 and qt5. >> suil comes with a dedicated version itself and as far as I notice >> doesn't require ntk-git or even qt4 and qt5 at the same time, even >> not by it's one and only hard dependency lv2, let alone that even >> qt4 is an optional dependency. Following the dependency chain ... I >> might be mistaken .. even GTK3 seems not to be a hard dependency. >> Did I miss something by suil's dependency chain? > >You're missing the fact that all of these are optional dependencies. >Nothing in carla is a real build-time dependency. > >But obviously, if you want to load gtk2 uis on carla, you need gtk2. >Same goes for qt4, qt5 and gtk3. There is no way around this, you need >the toolkit during build-time in order to support it. > >ntk-git (and also fftw3, mxml and zlib) are dependencies of >zynaddsubfx. you can take those out if you don't care about zyn inside >carla.
Please don't get me wrong, sometimes a plugin's GUI could be an advantage, but it also could be annoying. IMO plugins more often could be more comfortable, with an UI provided by the host. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
