[Spice-devel] [PATCH] make celt to be optional

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:47:09PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 12.06.2012 15:35, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Spice is very much about more than just pixels, that it does more than
> > graphics (usb, sound, audio-video sync, clipboard, etc) is an important
> > part of why Spice is better than other solutions. In fact, our support
> > of movies by using compressed video and audio is a pretty important
> > selling point of spice.
> > 
> > The main thing I disagree with this change is that you change how spice
> > works, making act differently than its creators intended, due to a
> > packaging technicallity. You decide that spice users are not interested
> > in low-bandwidh audio, without asking and without telling them. (I'm
> > sure it'll be mentioned somewhere, but its unlikely that most users will
> > see it.)
> 
> Well.  Alternative I have is to not provide spice in Debian at all.  This
> includes qemu/kvm packages shipping without spice support, so even if you
> add spice client built from sources, it wont help.  This includes such
> things like xspice.
> 
> Does this work better for you?  For users?

Neither scenario is good for users. We need to focus on addressing why
Celt051 can't be included in Debian, not arguing over which terrible
alternative is least-bad for users.

Daniel
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