I recently stumbled upon a rather big oversight in the package ebuild. After emerging Cantata, I could not initialize the program because the Music Player Daemon was not installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge media-sound/cantata 2. 3.
You don't have to have a local mpd server. It may well be just across the room on your home hifi system.
(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #1) > You don't have to have a local mpd server. It may well be just across the > room on your home hifi system. Yes, I know. But if you don't have any mpd server anywhere, it kinda helps for mpd clients to check if they have what they need locally. I find it to be a perfectly reasonable use case. Most of my music is on my computer anyway.
Well, we won't be adding an RDEPEND where there is no need for it. What we can do: Add a pkg_postinst elog message that informs about the ability of listening to local music (or not).
media-sound/qtmpc, which is a distant predecessor of cantata, did not have that dependency, and I suspect other MPD clients do not either.
Alright. In this case I will open a ticket upstream and ask them to fix the initialization issue.
What kind of initialisation issue? If you have some kind of problem with 2.1.0, please try 2.2.0.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4da5ede43011555c0c24f1389bbbdf4d3d1dc0f4 commit 4da5ede43011555c0c24f1389bbbdf4d3d1dc0f4 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-11-11 19:07:36 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-11-11 19:38:36 +0000 media-sound/cantata: Add elog message about MPD Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/637138 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.4 media-sound/cantata/cantata-2.2.0.ebuild | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #6) > What kind of initialisation issue? Without mpd installed, the initialization wizard withholds the option of using Cantata as a local music player (single-user). Strange! It needs mpd to give the option to work without it, and in the absence of mpd one needs to have mpd installed somewhere else.
