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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 02:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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?

To make it clear, I'm speaking for a "regular" gnome-settings-daemon.