Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:53:56 +0100 schrieb Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I know this command, but this won't solve the issue, that PA on Arch > Linux is a dependency for software that don't need PA. > I want a clean solution. Run pacman -Qi pulseaudio to see what package(s) forces you to install PA. As far as I know it's actually common policy in Arch Linux that PA is only optional and nobody is at least forced to use it. If there are applications which depend on PA and can't work without PA then you have, of course, the choice between installing and using PA or uninstalling the reverse dependency. But in such a case you have to blame upstream, but not Arch Linux. And it probably can happen that the package maintainer made a mistake by adding pulseaudio to depends instead of optdepends. In this case you should file a bug report or write a comment to AUR. Heiko
