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

[phani]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:14:07 +0530, Ralf Mardorf  
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

OT: this is the first discussion of PA, systemd, etc., in my limited  
experience that didn't lead to ad hominem attacks, stays on topic, and  
actually provides useful information. great!

-- 
phani.