On August 2, 2017 11:16:43 PM GMT+02:00, Brian Callahan <bcal...@devio.us> wrote: >Hi ports -- > >I did some digging into sdl-mixer and sdl2-mixer. It turns out that for > >the vast majority of users, MIDI output for these packages has never >worked. Both sdl-mixer and sdl2-mixer contain their own internal >timidity. What sdl-mixer and sdl2-mixer do is look for an >/etc/timidity.cfg to point it to a GUS patchset so that it can play >MIDI >music. Currently, this is only available through the audio/timidity >port. Which means that until this morning, it was only ever available >to >users who compiled timidity themselves. > >sdl-mixer and sdl2-mixer do not use the timidity binary that you get >from the audio/timidity port. > >Now that we have a freely redistributable GUS patchset, I propose we do > >the following: > >Split the audio/timidity port into two ports: audio/timidity and >audio/timgm6mb-gus. audio/timidity will only provide the timidity >binary >and timidity.cfg manual page. audio/timgm6mb-gus will provide the GUS >patchset and a /etc/timidity.cfg that will work with all 3: >audio/timidity, devel/sdl-mixer, and devel/sdl2-mixer. > >Add an RDEP on audio/timgm6mb-gus for all 3. Unlike fluidsynth, the 3 >timidities are useless without a patchset. > >If you're asking "why not just add an RDEP on audio/timidity where it >makes sense," the reason is audio/timidity has three FLAVORs, all of >which conflict with one another. So if a user installs for example >audio/timidity,gtk2 and we add RDEPs on audio/timidity in places, then >things will hit conflicts. And that seems to be a step backwards. >Additionally, I think the more 1997 code we can keep off peoples' >computers, the better. And if we decide to remove timidity from the >ports tree one day, it won't cause the MIDI playback of sdl-mixer and >sdl2-mixer to suddenly stop working. > >Attached is a new port, audio/timgm6mb-gus, which contains the patchset > >and the /etc/timidity.cfg. A diff is also attached that makes >audio/timidity, devel/sdl-mixer, and devel/sdl2-mixer work with this >new >port. With this configuration, prboom (which uses sdl-mixer) and >CorsixTH (which uses sdl2-mixer) are able to play their game music >without timidity installed. And then if you want the standalone >timidity >binary, that will just work too, regardless of whether or not sdl-mixer > >and sdl2-mixer are installed. > >I will then sweep the tree and figure out what things actually really >use the timidity binary, if anything. > >OK? > >~Brian
If you don't RDEP on a specific FLAVOR, then any FLAVOR will match the dependency. -- Antoine
