packaging jack...

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 04:01:17PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
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>On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>>>When you register with libjack, it will start the daemon if it is 
>>>not already running.  So, you can't have the library without the 
>>>daemon.[*]
>>
>>That sounds like trouble: if such application is invoked inside a 
>>chroot, it causes a mess!
>>
>>Debian mandates ability to enforce daemons to not be started (it is 
>>called policy.d - see e.g. the Debian package policyrcd-script-zg2 
>>for more info (and probably somewhere in Debian Policy itself - too 
>>lazy to look it up right now).
>
>jackd is not Not NOT a system daemon and should never be started by 
>an rc.d script.
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>jackd is a user daemon that should started and stopped by a normal 
>user.

I know it is not a system daemon.  If policy.d only is tied only to sysV 
scripts then I apologize for causing confusion: I do *not* mean to say 
that jack should be handled as a sysV system daemon.

My point is that even as a user-invoked daemon I still believe that it 
should be possible to suppress it due to being a daemon.

I believe (but have now investigated) that user dbus (in addition to 
system dbus) is can be suppressed too, for the same reason.

It has been some time since I looked at this last: When using diskless 
systems like LTSP this issue becomes relevant.


  - Jonas

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