FS#45539 - [vice] pulseaudio dependency should be optional

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by ugr (ugr) - Friday, 03 July 2015, 22:00 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 09 August 2017, 05:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

When trying to install the current version of VICE (2.4-7) via pacman, I am informed I need to install pulseaudio. I do not wish to do this. I consider this a bug because VICE has support for multiple audio output options and works just fine without pulse. I do not wish to force installation of the package with pacman -Sdd.

To test, you can either force installation without dependency checking (I avoided the packages libnet pulseaudio rtkit sbc webrtc-audio-processing, other dependencies were already installed) or you can compile with --without-pulse to verify the package works fine. Also, a pulse-enabled VICE can be used on a non-pulse system by simply selecting the "alsa" audio device in settings | sound settings | sound device name and enabling audio.

Hopefully a valid compromise can be found that will enable more people to use and install this package without requiring the installation of pulseaudio.
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Wednesday, 09 August 2017, 05:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  vice 3.0-1 depends only on libpulse
Comment by Samantha McVey (samcv) - Friday, 10 June 2016, 02:00 GMT
Running namcap to check for dependencies:
namcap vice-2.4-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz :(
vice W: Dependency alsa-lib included but already satisfied
vice W: Dependency included and not needed ('pulseaudio')
vice W: Dependency included and not needed ('libnet')

This extra dependency seems reasonable to remove as you have stated.
Possibly have pulseaudio be a builddep but not a standard dependency seems reasonable.

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