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

[Ralf Mardorf]

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

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 at archlinux ~]$ 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 at archlinux ~]$ 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 at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si mate-settings-daemon|grep "Depends On     :"|grep pulseaudio
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si pulseaudio-alsa|grep "Depends On     :"|grep pulseaudio
Depends On     : alsa-plugins>=1.0.25  pulseaudio