[arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

[fredbezies]

2011/12/23 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 11:27 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> On 12/23/2011 11:25 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 11:17 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> >> can you clarify that you are talking about pulseaudio and not about
>> >> libpulse?
>> >
>> > # pacman -Rss pulseaudio
>> > checking dependencies...
>> > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>> > :: gnome-settings-daemon: requires pulseaudio
>> > :: pulseaudio-alsa: requires pulseaudio
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> ok then, gnome requires pulseaudio. The only way to get rid of
>> pulseaudio is to get rid of gnome.
>
> 1.
>
> At the moment only GDM is installed, not GNOME.
>
> 2.
>
> I had GNOME3 installed for Debian and 2 dummy packages solved all
> issues, since GNOME3 doesn't need PA, just some "my computer should be a
> toy, instead of a tool" tasks need PA.
>
> Okay, if the policy of Arch Linux is to force people to install unneeded
> stuff, than it simply isn't the distro I should use.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralf
>

No. The policy of Archlinux is to provide software which are as closed
as possible from upstream. Fill free to use a distribution which
tweaks to death software.

Have a good day.

-- 
Frederic Bezies
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