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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 528

[phonon-qt4-gstreamer] Why pulseaudio is a mandatory dependency ?

I discover that pulseaudio is now a mandatory dependency for the 4.8.0.1 version of phonon-qt4-gstreamer package,

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … gstreamer/

but I don't want to use pulseaudio, I use alsa for the sound, the previous version of phonon-qt4-gstreamer doesn't need pulseaudio,

so why this change ?

is it a mistake from the maintener ?

the other phonon backend ( phonon-qt4-vlc ) doesn't need of pulseaudio, so it should be the same for phonon-qt4-gstreamer,

some people have problems with pulseaudio ( bugs ), so this change will bring problems if pulseaudio is installed when we want to install phonon-qt4-gstreamer 4.8.0.1

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [phonon-qt4-gstreamer] Why pulseaudio is a mandatory dependency ?

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … e29f00c8f6

 If you want to, try installing it while ignoring the pulseaudio dependency, but leave libpulse in place.

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 528

Re: [phonon-qt4-gstreamer] Why pulseaudio is a mandatory dependency ?

the problem is fixed with phonon-qt4-gstreamer 4.8.0-2 ( pulseaudio is now removed from the dependency list )

mid-kid

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Registered: 2013-05-07

Posts: 177

Re: [phonon-qt4-gstreamer] Why pulseaudio is a mandatory dependency ?

Thanks for fixing it, whoever fixed it.

Last edited by mid-kid (2014-09-09 15:53:20)

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