Re: Installed audio/alsa-plugins and dependencies

February 17, 2024 1:56 AM, "Jan Beich" <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> But the installed package reports:
>> 8:09pm# pkg info --dependencies alsa-plugins
>> alsa-plugins-1.2.7.1_3:
>> alsa-lib-1.2.10_1
> 
> Check dependencies of subpackages instead e.g.,
> 
> $ pkg info -xd 'alsa-plugins-[^0-9]'
> alsa-plugins-ffmpeg-1.2.7.1_3:
> ffmpeg-6.1.1_3,1
> alsa-lib-1.2.10_1
> alsa-plugins-jack-1.2.7.1_3:
> jackit-1.9.22_2
> alsa-lib-1.2.10_1
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.2.7.1_3:
> pulseaudio-16.1_2
> alsa-lib-1.2.10_1
> alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.2.7.1_3:
> libsamplerate-0.2.2_1
> alsa-lib-1.2.10_1
> alsa-plugins-speex-1.2.7.1_3:
> speexdsp-1.2.1
> alsa-lib-1.2.10_1
> 
>> It appears to be missing the SUBPACKAGE dependencies. Is this
>> intentional, or a bug?
> 
> Intentional. See pkg-message:
> 
> Plugins with extra dependencies moved into subpackages:
> - alsa-plugins-ffmpeg
> - alsa-plugins-jack
> - alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> - alsa-plugins-samplerate
> - alsa-plugins-speex

In my opinion, that's _not_ correct. When we install any non-SUBPACKAGE package, anything listed in LIB_DEPENDS or USES are automatically listed as package dependencies. However, if I install audio/alsa-plugins, the only way I know what dependencies are required is to by consulting /usr/ports/audio/alsa-plugins/Makefile. And if audio/alsa-plugins was to be compiled with non-standard OPTIONS, it's impossible to tell what dependencies are _actually_ required.

Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>