21 Mar
2017
21 Mar
'17
1:38 a.m.
Hi Christoph, Andy, Marten, *, Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general:
pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:
wasn't aware about the network possibility which finally makes perfectly sense making pavucontrol an optional dependency for the local setup.
$ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol
Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.
other story - probably worth, filing a bug.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
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pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server.
So what is the reason making both dependencies optional?
so thank you all for enlightening :o)) -- Friedrich