Because:
1. the two are not binary compatible, so any stray packages may crash one or the other if they are in the shared directory
2. pd-l2ork comes as a monolithic distribution
3. Pd-utils is enough to break the one or the other due to different ways how gui functions between the two.
If you can think of a better way please do let me know.
That said, the two can nicely coexist if you install one of them using the binary installer script because that one exists in the usr/usr/local directory as opposed to/usr. Pd-l2ork already provides binary installers and automated tarball builders.
P.S. I tried building pd-extended but had no luck using the same "make install path=/usr/local" (as per readme in packages/linux). I will try to resync latest svn. Perhaps something has changed.
On 01/21/2013 11:22 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>> Interesting, I'll have a go at it.
>>
>> I think I said I'd pay you if you were able to fix this. Or maybe that
> was
>> matju. Either
>> way if it's fixed I'll pay you for it.
>>
>> To be honest, I have no earthly idea why I care so much about this
>> feature. Perhaps
>> it's from going through the hamster-wheel of externals all written just to
> get
>> the args
>> list when this is all that is needed to solve all but the exotic cases.
>>
>> -Jonathan
>
> You can also try the binary builds I just posted (20130121 version) that has
> all of the aforesaid fixes (assuming you use Ubuntu).
>
> Cheers!
>
Hey ico,
I'm curious why you made the pd-l2ork package conflict with all of the
puredata packages. As far as I can tell, it only conflicts with
puredata-utils. It would be very handy if pd-l2ork could live in parallel
with pd and pd-extended.
And in terms of lowering your maintenance load, you could remove lots of
libraries from pd-l2ork and instead set them in Depend: and have them provided
by the official packages that are already in Debian and Ubuntu. You can see a
listing of what's included in Debian here: look for all the packages that
start with pd-
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
.hc