FS#37561 - [cinnamon-settings-daemon] Dependency should be on pulseaudio, not pulseaudio-alsa
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Opened by Felipe Contreras (felipec) - Thursday, 31 October 2013, 03:40 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 12 December 2013, 16:30 GMT
Opened by Felipe Contreras (felipec) - Thursday, 31 October 2013, 03:40 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 12 December 2013, 16:30 GMT
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Details
Currently cinnamon-settings-deamon requires pulseaudio-alsa,
however, that package is only used to override ALSA to use
pulseaudio, which the user might not want (and I definitely
don't).
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Closed by Balló György (City-busz)
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 16:30 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: Cinnamon users are expect that sounds are played trough the PulseAudio server.
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 16:30 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: Cinnamon users are expect that sounds are played trough the PulseAudio server.
@Jan, why did you added pulseaudio-alsa as a dependency for gnome-settings-daemon?
Nothing prevents you from altering the provided asound.conf to make whatever else the default output.
There's a reason pulseaudio-alsa is separated from pulseaudio, so I, *the user*, can decide if I want to enable this or not. By faking the pulseaudio-alsa requirement, you give the user no option, therefore obliterating the whole reason why pulseaudio-alsa exists.
# mv /etc/asound.conf{,.backup}
# touch /etc/asound.conf
and forget it ever, it won't be replaced on update.
But most users who use GNOME or Cinnamon are expects that legacy applications that won't use PulseAudio will be played trough the PulseAudio server, so they can set their volume in the control center, with the sound applet, and with the media keys.