Pulseaudio and my sanity

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:04, Alvin<info at alvin.be> wrote:
...
> Easy to know:
>
> $ aptitude why pulseaudio
> i   plasma-widget-network-manager Depends  kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.2.3)
> i A kdebase-runtime               Depends  libpulse0 (>= 0.9.14)
> i A libpulse0                     Suggests pulseaudio
>
> So, it's only a 'suggestion'. If I'm not mistaken, installing suggested
> packages is the default policy in Ubuntu.

If you read the above line correctly, the only thing needed is the
libpulse0 library, but certainly not the whole pulseaudio. And yes,
the hard linked library dependency for kdebase-runtime _is_ a bug and
should not be there.


Regards, Myriam
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