[arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 02:28 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:37 AM, David Benfell
> <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
> > How much of this is the distribution and how much of this is gnome?
> 
> Mostly upstream (depends of course a bit on which package you have in
> mind). If an app links against libpulse it means that it would crash
> if libpulse is not installed, so we add a dependency on libpulse.
> 
> A dependency that does not cause the app to misbehave if it is not
> installed (such as plugins, etc) should (in general) be an optdepend.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48718
Nothing bad happens, if pulseaudio (not libpulse), is a dummy package.
So why is pulseaudio a dependency and not optional?