[ATrpms-users] Asterisk dependencies

[Philip Prindeville]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:07:32PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Would it make sense to remove the dependency of Asterisk on
>>zaptel and libtonezone?  Or even spandsp?
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>>Some of us are using the natively SIP handsets like the Zyxel
>>or Vtech...
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>What benefits would that have? The disadvantage of a fully-supporting
>package set is that is add bloat to the system, i.e. fills your hard
>disk. But other than that it's harmless.
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>Similar arguments apply to probably any package out there, even the
>glibc - not many really use the hyperbolic functions in the glibc, but
>if you do need them and someone removed them, you'll be quite annoyed
>:)
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>If support for these is removed you'll have a very large group of
>asterisk users dissatisfied. And everyone has a different favourite
>set of feature he likes, so even if removing features would be
>desirable, deciding which features to keep or not is very
>difficult. Of course for a custom system (think Gentoo), you would
>probably want to tune to tha last bit.
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I'm not saying remove it...  I'm saying make it a separate package that's
optional.

-Philip


>Systems like Fedora Core and RHEL try to be rather feature
>complete. If you need to develop a distribution for say an embedded
>system (e.g. an embedded asterisk phone) you'll start cutting out all
>unneccessary functions to gain in size and performance. You'd
>probably start with replacing glibc with something slicker.
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