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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:52:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>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 at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si |grep "Name           :"|wc -l
>7947
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si |grep "Depends On     :"|grep
>pulseaudio|wc -l 16
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ echo $((7947 - 16))
>7931

Sure, there are dependency chains, but AFAIK only for some packages
that belong to a minority of a few bloated desktop environments, so
reality is close to the just 16 packages out of 7947 packages. Other
distros split those 7947 packages by the factor of 8 and more packages,
so just one of that 8 packages could have a hard dependency to
pulseaudio, IOW the ratio for e.g. Debian and Ubuntu would be much
higher.