On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 17:40 +0100, "Karl E. Jørgensen" wrote: > Technically, a dummy package is never "needed"
Hi Karl, I disagree, in the past years I build a pulseaudio package because it was needed. Now I need to fake that pulseaudio and gvfs are installed, because Debian and Ubuntu follow upstream and add them as hard dependency to some packages, but they are a PITA and definitely optional dependencies. At least I want audio working and not be forced to install crap, that will kill my external HDD. JFTR I've got a professional sound card installed and even if pulseaudio always could be turned off without causing side effects, I won't install bad designed software I don't like. My HDD fulfills the EU Regulation, IOW it will park after a while, but gvfs will make drives that fulfil the EU Regulation spin down and up again and again, it's completely broken software nobody with modern external drives should install. Resume, a dummy always is needed, when upstream and/or package builders will make Linux less good to customize, but we want to install packages from repositories. A pulseaudio dummy package doesn't cause issues, as already mentioned I installed this package within the last years very often. I don't know if a gvfs dummy will cause any issue, but since it's possible to run Thunar without gvfs, I guess other packages can live without it too. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1376761371.687.23.camel@archlinux
