On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 14:56, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > _But_ there are a lot of packages that require at least gvfs or > pulseaudio as a hard dependency, while those packages could require > them as an optional dependency instead, they still would work. I guess that if you reported a bug for any of those packages on https://bugs.archlinux.org, the packagers would probably move pulseaudio/gvfs from depends to optdepends. I've had success with that in the past. Regards, Neven