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Author Re: debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client
Eric Wong

2004-09-05, 2:47 am

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> Eric Wong wrote:
>
> Dependencies (Depends, Recommends, Suggests) describe relationships
> between packages on the same machine. This is not totally explicit in
> the policy, though. If you want to hint the user what sort of clients
> and servers work together, you need to do that elsewhere.


Yes, but the common case for mpd usage is that the daemon and client run
on the same machine.

I don't have hard statistics, but from my own involvement with the MPD
community for the past 11 months or so; users run mpd-clients and mpd
itself from the same machine roughly 80-90% of the time. I've even
talked to several users who didn't even know about the remote
capabilities of mpd


On a sidenote:

The TCP/IP networking capabilities help me a LOT when I'm working with
several machines in a room, with _one_ of them playing music, but I
can adjust playback, and add songs to the playlist from any of them
without going back to the one running the daemon.

--
Eric Wong

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