[arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

[Eli Schwartz]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> earlier today an update asked me to replace
> mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio with mate-settings-daemon. After taking
> a look at the old and new package I replaced it.
>
> From an hour ago until now the update asks to replace
> mate-settings-daemon with mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio.
>
> If I reply with Y I get:
>
>   error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>   :: mate-control-center: requires mate-settings-daemon>=1.10
>   :: mate-session-manager: requires mate-settings-daemon>=1.10
>
> If I reply with N I get:
>
>   there is nothing to do
>
> Why does pacman ask me to replace it while there's nothing to do and
> two other packages need the installed version?
>
> Is something wrong on my machine or should I report a bug against a
> package?
>
> $ pacman -Si mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio mate-settings-daemon
> Repository     : community
> Name           : mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio
> Version        : 1.8.3-1
> Description    : The MATE Settings daemon (pulseaudio)
> Architecture   : x86_64
> URL            : http://mate-desktop.org
> Licenses       : GPL
> Groups         : mate
> Provides       : mate-settings-daemon
> Depends On     : dbus-glib  dconf  fontconfig  gtk2  libcanberra-pulse
> libmatekbd  libnotify  libxt
>                  mate-desktop  nss  polkit  pulseaudio-alsa
> Optional Deps  : None
> Conflicts With : mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer  mate-media-gstreamer
> Replaces       : mate-settings-daemon
> Download Size  : 471.85 KiB
> Installed Size : 2863.00 KiB
> Packager       : Martin Wimpress <code at flexion.org>
> Build Date     : Mon 16 Mar 2015 04:33:22 PM CET
> Validated By   : MD5 Sum  SHA256 Sum  Signature
>
> Repository     : community
> Name           : mate-settings-daemon
> Version        : 1.10.0-1
> Description    : The MATE Settings daemon (GTK2 version)
> Architecture   : x86_64
> URL            : http://mate-desktop.org
> Licenses       : GPL
> Groups         : mate
> Provides       : None
> Depends On     : dbus-glib  dconf  fontconfig  gtk2  libcanberra-pulse
> libmatekbd>=1.10  libmatemixer
>                  libnotify  libxt  mate-desktop>=1.10  nss  polkit
> Optional Deps  : None
> Conflicts With : mate-settings-daemon-gtk3
> mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer  mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio
> Replaces       : mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer
> mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio
> Download Size  : 462.13 KiB
> Installed Size : 2836.00 KiB
> Packager       : Martin Wimpress <code at flexion.org>
> Build Date     : Sat 09 May 2015 12:37:15 PM CEST
> Validated By   : MD5 Sum  SHA256 Sum  Signature
>
> Too funny, I don't use Mate, I installed it just for testing purpose.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

I updated and replaced the packages, but I am not suddenly getting a
message to revive mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio.

Do you have any packages installed that depend on it?

-- Eli Schwartz