[arch-general] How to enable Archlinux users to easily avoid Polkit?

Neven Sajko nsajko at gmail.com
Sun May 30 21:54:17 UTC 2021


On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 14:56, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
<arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> _But_ there are a lot of packages that require at least gvfs or
> pulseaudio as a hard dependency, while those packages could require
> them as an optional dependency instead, they still would work.

I guess that if you reported a bug for any of those packages on
https://bugs.archlinux.org, the packagers would probably move
pulseaudio/gvfs from depends to optdepends. I've had success with that
in the past.

Regards,
Neven


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