Bug#376241: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#376241: option "None" to disable sound support

[Elimar Riesebieter]

tags 376241 wontfix
thanks

On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 the mental interface of
Robert Millan told:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 the mental interface of
> > Robert Millan told:
> > 
> > > Package: linux-sound-base
> > > Version: 1.0.11-2
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Tags: patch
> > > 
> > > Would be nice if you could disable both ALSA and OSS sound support in the
> > > debconf template.  This is useful for servers that load a bunch of drivers
> > > for their integrated sound card and none of this is ever used.
> > > 
> > > Patch attached.
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch, but professional sysadmins don't compile their
> > server-kernels with sound-support
> 
> Who said compiling?  :)
> 
> Using Debian official Linux packages is a very good option for servers as well
> as workstations.  Saves a lot of maintainance work, at a minimal loss in
> performance.
> 
> > and will never install any sound
> > apps like alsa-base or moc, so your patch would be useless anyway then ;)
> 
> Precisely, installing linux-sound-base is a good way to disable loading of all
> these sound-related modules.  Much better than creating the noOSS and noALSA
> files by hand:
> 
>   - Easier/faster (apt-get install linux-sound-base).
>   - Module list is updated with new releases.

So let the modules be loaded. As you mentioned before they won't be
used anyway. And IMHO it's not a good idea to blow up the source
package alsa-driver for that special reason. As I mentioned before,
a responsible sysadmin configures his software and the kernel very
carefull. So I prefer to tag this bug as wontfix. Blacklisting your
individuell soundlist ist very easy and won't be override on updates
if you name your blacklist
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/my_individuell_blacklist ;)

Elimar


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