[pulseaudio-discuss] Module dependencies

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 05/11/12 13:22 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 21:08 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 23/07/12 05:16 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Hello
>>> Folks using the Rygel module are currently facing the problem of having
>>> to remember to manually add the http module to the auto-loaded list. As
>>> I see it, there are two ways of fixing this:
>>>         
>>> 1. Just try to load the http protocol module in the Rygel module (it'll
>>> fail if it's already loaded)
>>>         
>>> 2. Add a mechanism to specify such dependencies in modules.
>>>         
>>> The latter is more generic, obviously, but I think this would be
>>> overkill. Does anyone know of cases where such a mechanism would be
>>> required? If not, we should just go with (1) soon.
>>
>> 3. Make paprefs do it when it adds the rygel module...
>>
>> I'll volunteer to do this if this is the best solution, but really I'd
>> rather avoid doing any major paprefs changes!
>>
>> So maybe option 1 would be good for v3.0. If approved I will do this.
> 
> ++ on going with option 1.

Actually this probably won't work... the http module kinda needs network
ACLs. It would seem wrong to set these automatically in a hard-coded way
IMO.

I guess this really needs to go into paprefs then. WDYT?

Col






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