On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 02:28 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:37 AM, David Benfell > <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How much of this is the distribution and how much of this is gnome? > > Mostly upstream (depends of course a bit on which package you have in > mind). If an app links against libpulse it means that it would crash > if libpulse is not installed, so we add a dependency on libpulse. > > A dependency that does not cause the app to misbehave if it is not > installed (such as plugins, etc) should (in general) be an optdepend. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48718 Nothing bad happens, if pulseaudio (not libpulse), is a dummy package. So why is pulseaudio a dependency and not optional?
