[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #802: Status on Arch Linux | Splitting into Library and Application

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#802: Status on Arch Linux | Splitting into Library and Application
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 Reporter:  Xavion       |       Owner:  lennart     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new         
Milestone:               |   Component:  build-system
 Keywords:               |  
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 I'm petitioning the Arch Linux developers to upgrade the location of the
 PulseAudio package from 'community' (3rd) to 'extra' (2nd).  One of them
 has taken an interest in this idea and will look into the matter further.

 In the meantime, another Arch Linux user thought it might be beneficial to
 split PulseAudio into library and application packages.  He wrote a
 preliminary PKGBUILD script, which can be viewed
 [http://paste.pocoo.org/show/191756/ here].

 The idea seems quite good, but those 'rm' statements are awful.  I've
 looked through the PulseAudio 'configure' and 'Makefile.in' files, noting
 that there are many helpful '--disable' options and make targets.

 Despite these, there didn't immediately seem to be a clear way to split
 the building process into library and application sections.  I'm wondering
 whether you think this might be a good feature for future releases of
 PulseAudio to possess.

 In layman's terms, I'm hoping for something similar to "make lib" and
 "make app".  Let me know if this ability already exists, or if you think
 the idea would require too many structural changes to the PulseAudio
 source code.

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