On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:05:25 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
Until now even this isn't an issue, since AFAIK only GNOME for Arch insists on pulseaudio. But this might change. People for good reasons chose some distro.
I think if Gnome has a hard dependency on PA, there isn't anything Arch can do about it... Patching upstream sources isn't the Archway... Otherwise it ought to be an optdepend, but making it optional it it's needed by a package would probably be a bad idea... Seems to me that either you need to stop using Gnome, or write the needed patches to make PA optional. I guess a 3:rd option would be to fix what is broken in PA...:) Let's hope Arch stays the way it was, where more or less everything is optional and you can design your own system exactly as you want it! --- Joakim