On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:22:01 +1100, Simon Wise wrote:
> On 05/01/16 00:31, Irrwahn wrote:

[ About mixing packages from Debian and Deb-Multimedia. ]

[...]
> If you only used audio from dmo it was generally ok, but they do not cover a lot
> of audio needs.

I guess I have just been lucky then, the last couple years. Phew.

> Based on past experience mixing those repositories would definitely exclude
> using devuan from any audio workstation, or any system which needed other than
> standard desktop audio needs. It is probably mostly ok with desktop audio.
>
> It will certainly mean I cannot use devuan in most machines I look after.

If this is true, and you are probably not the only one
affected, I wonder if maybe Devuan should reconsider
merging the dmo repos. For those who want them it's
trivial to add to sources.list, much easier then to
apt-pin them out of the way if one does not want to
use them. Freedom of choice, etc.

And in the unlikely case that some multimedia package
from dmo gets the systemdisease, there are several
possible ways to tackle that, without unconditionally
merging the whole dmo repository.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Best regards
Urban