On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Thanasis Georgiou <sakisds.s@gmail.com>wrote:
On 29 January 2012 18:44, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
[snip] When I've got a set up and I'll upgrade it, it's ok if things get borked, because of a new sound server. But if a group of people file bug reports, than it's ignorant not to fix the new sound server, but instead to demand that it must become dependency for more and more software even if it has nothing to do with audio.
- Ralf
GDM has to do with audio. It supports everything gnome wants to support. Which means it needs audio to either play a sound when you input a wrong password or to read the usernames aloud in case the user has visibility problems. It might work without pulseaudio (dummy package), sure, but it might not work as intended. The guys at the Gnome project decided they want pulseaudio. Now you can either try and convince them to drop support or convince the PulseAudio team to fix it's problems.
Indeed, this should be the thing the complainers _should_ be doing. Archlinux ships vanilla upstream, so you're really barking at the wrong tree here. Please consider asking either PA for help or ditch it.
-- Thanasis Georgiou
-- Jelle van der Waa