[ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

Michal Schmidt mschmidt at redhat.com
Wed Jul 29 14:46:01 UTC 2009


Dne Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:21:00 +0200 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
napsal:
> > > But whatever. Just please stop imposing pulseaudio on those who
> > > don't want to use it. For the record, I'm still considering
> > > leaving Fedora because - as a GNOME desktop - it's becoming
> > > unusable without pulseaudio. Making it a hard dependency for
> > > GNOME bluetooth stack in F11 went a bit too far in my opinion.
> > 
> > I did that, and the reasons for it were discussed on this list.
> > Nobody has made any headway into explaining how to fix the
> > problem[1] without the hard dependency.
> > 
> > [1]: That'd be out-of-the-box Bluetooth headset and speakers support
> 
> While having support for stuff like that is great, I still would like
> to be able to remove pulseaudio (even it it means losing support for
> bluetooth headsets and speakers) without losing the rest of
> gnome-bluetooth.

Dominik,

if you don't want to use PA, remove only alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, then
the "default" ALSA output won't be redirected to PA. You can leave
"pulseaudio" package installed to satisfy the dependencies.

Michal




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