[arch-general] pavucontrol depency question

[Friedrich Strohmaier]

Hi Christoph, Andy, Marten, *,



Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general:

> pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another
> machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:

wasn't aware about the network possibility which finally makes perfectly sense
making pavucontrol an optional dependency for the local setup.

>    $ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol

> Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.

other story - probably worth, filing a bug.

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:

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>> pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server.

>> So what is the reason making both dependencies optional?

so thank you all for enlightening :o))
-- 
Friedrich