[ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

[Petr Pisar]

On 2010-08-04, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Orphan: nas
>>     gstreamer-plugins-bad-free requires nas-devel = 1.9.1-6.fc12
>>     gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras requires libaudio.so.2
>>     speech-dispatcher requires libaudio.so.2
>>     speech-dispatcher requires nas-devel = 1.9.1-6.fc12
>
> I suggest that these be just built without NAS support. NAS is basically an 
> older competitor to PulseAudio with fewer features (it focuses on network 
> transparency, which is just one of the things PulseAudio does), it is not 
> compatible with PulseAudio, few to no people use it.
>
I agree NAS is very old audio system, but it has history. It works (or
should work) across operating systems (do not think only about Linux).
In addition it supports bidirectional sound transmission (from
microphone).

PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old
slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX)
running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While
`playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer
overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS
or Esound work on the machine fluently.

Thus I took NAS maintainance over and I'm going to resurrect it.

-- Petr