[ATrpms-users] Asterisk dependencies

[Philip Prindeville]

Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> Would it make sense to remove the dependency of Asterisk on
>> zaptel and libtonezone?  Or even spandsp?
>>
>> Some of us are using the natively SIP handsets like the Zyxel
>> or Vtech...
>>     
>
> Asterisk always needs zaptel. You need to have a good timing module, and 
> only the zaptel kmdl provides them (ztdummy). The rc.d script for 
> loading the kmdl is in the zaptel module.  And zaptel depends on 
> libtonezone.
>
> As for spandsp, the app_rxfax and app_txfax are now part of asterisk, so 
>   rpm automatically requires spandsp. Unless these modules are split 
> into a separate package (asterisk-fax?), the dependency remains.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark
>   

There were some noises about further breaking Asterisk down into
finer granularity.  That would be a good thing, and would more fully
exploit the ability to tailor/configure Asterisk to a wide range of
applications.

Has there been any movement on this?

And what is the strategy?

Could the timing module ztdummy (since it doesn't actually correspond
to real hardware, if I've understood correctly) be made part of a
stand-alone asterisk-kmdl rpm instead?

-Philip