Re: [LAU] Assumed you want to remove pulseaudio - Was: Diagnosing JACK

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:33:19 +0200, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>On 10/10/2015 10:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> If somebody wants to get rid of pulseaudio, without recompiling,
>> without dummy packages, then it doesn't harm to test if software
>> really needs pulseaudio.
>
>And why do you think so little packages depend on PulseAudio?

[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Si |grep "Name :"|wc -l
7947
[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Si |grep "Depends On :"|grep pulseaudio|wc -l
16
[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ echo $((7947 - 16))
7931

It usually are exceptions e.g. GNOME and Cinnamon that by default have
absurd hard dependencies to pulseaudio, but e.g. not Mate, Xfce4, Openbox,
JWM ...

There wouldn't be the need to rebuild and configure with "--disable-pulse", assumed it
still should be provided, just making pulseaudio an optional dependency
would solve what's an issue for some users.

[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Si gnome-settings-daemon|grep "Depends On :"|grep pulseaudio
Depends On : dconf gnome-desktop gsettings-desktop-schemas libcanberra-pulse libnotify libsystemd libwacom pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa upower librsvg libgweather geocode-glib geoclue2 nss libgudev
[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Si cinnamon-settings-daemon|grep "Depends On :"|grep pulseaudio
Depends On : cinnamon-desktop libibus libcanberra-pulse librsvg nss pulseaudio-alsa upower libnotify libgnomekbd libwacom libgudev
[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Si mate-settings-daemon|grep "Depends On :"|grep pulseaudio
[rocketmouse@email-addr-hidden ~]$ pacman -Si pulseaudio-alsa|grep "Depends On :"|grep pulseaudio
Depends On : alsa-plugins>=1.0.25 pulseaudio
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Received on Tue Oct 13 00:15:01 2015