15 Mar
2014
15 Mar
'14
6:45 a.m.
On 15/03/14 13:42, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)rocketmail.com> wrote:
debian forces very little, no need for any desktop at all, or X, let alone pulse
and such.
But there are many desktop audio apps that are intended for use with pulse, and
they depend on pulse.
On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 14:04 +0000, Fons
Adriaensen wrote:
Thanks Ralf
Actually I am on debian because ubuntu was forcing pulseaudio which
was too much of a headache.
When debian started doing the same, I decided to opt out of a clearly
losing battle :-( First of all disable Pulse, or get rid of it.
Don't know how to
do that on Debian.
To get rid of it by removing and not disabling it and assumed there
should be a hard dependency to pulseaudio, the easiest way is to build a
dummy package using equivs.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html
I just checked :
Trying to remove pulseaudio-utils and pavucontrol does not disturb anything
Trying to remove libpulse0 removes everything!
apps which have a pulse option do of course need the library they have been
compiled with, so you need that even if you do not use it. To avoid that you
would need to recompile without pulse support, and clearly that isn't
appropriate for general distribution. It is possible for apps to be a bit more
sophisticated than this but most do not bother, it is easy just to make the
library a dependency ... libraries are separate packages for this reason.
Simon