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

[Ionut Biru]

On 12/23/2011 11:51 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> 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.
> 

hey troll, before trowing such arguments i suggest to look at our gdm
version and debian version.

gdm 3.2 requires gnome-settings-daemon and all the crap.

debian has gdm 3.0 which doesn't require.

not to mention that only couples of days ago debian finished gnome 3.2.

> Thanks,
> 
> Ralf
> 


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Ionuț

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