12 Oct
2015
12 Oct
'15
8:04 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:52:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:33:19 +0200, Jeremy Jongepier
wrote:
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.
On 10/10/2015 10:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si |grep "Name :"|wc -l
7947
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si |grep "Depends On :"|grep
pulseaudio|wc -l 16
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ echo $((7947 - 16))
7931 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?