Hi Christoph, Andy, Marten, *, Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general: > pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another > machine's pulseaudio instance over the network: wasn't aware about the network possibility which finally makes perfectly sense making pavucontrol an optional dependency for the local setup. > $ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol > Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them. other story - probably worth, filing a bug. > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: [..] >> pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server. >> So what is the reason making both dependencies optional? so thank you all for enlightening :o)) -- Friedrich