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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:22 -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> On 08/12/2012 02:43 PM, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
> 
> > I also don't quite understand the PA discussion.  I am not thrilled
> > to have libpulse pulled in as a dependency, but on the other hand I
> > have never seen it cause a problem in arch.  Of course I have no
> > intention of installing, nor of starting pulseaudio itself on my
> > system...
> > 
> From what I've seen, libpulse doesn't cause problems (other than
> occupying space). I'm not thrilled about it either. But it seems
> possible to have it on the system without drawing in the rest of the
> pulseaudio toolchain that is clearly problematic.
> 
> Great discussion, by the way. I don't fully understand it either, but
> given the problems I've had with pulseaudio, I appreciate what seems
> to be confirmation that I'm losing nothing by leaving it out.

libpulse is ok :), I don't care about some bytes more or less. A desktop
picture nowadays needs more RAM/ROM than a complete workstation needs 2
decades ago.

The issue was/is/will be, that PA is a dependency, even if it's not
needed.

Regards,
Ralf