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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 00:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
 Ooops, but it can brake some usages. Apologize.