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#1 2021-10-26 01:58:14
- ethin
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- Registered: 2021-03-12
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Replacing pipewire-media-session with wireplumber
I'm currently using pipewire-media-session for my Pipewire media session and want to switch to wireplumber. However, removing pipewire-media-session will remove 24 other packages, most of which are core desktop environment packages (e.g. gnome-shell, accountservice, etc), and I have no idea what Gnome will do if I remove them while its running. Is there some other way I can swap out pipewire-media-session without having to practically break my desktop environment in the process?
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#2 2021-10-26 05:49:11
- icar
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Re: Replacing pipewire-media-session with wireplumber
You can control what to remove with pacman.
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#3 2021-10-26 06:35:06
- V1del
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Re: Replacing pipewire-media-session with wireplumber
You can just install wireplumber, which should result in a logical conflict prompting you to replace one with the other. Otherwise use -Rdd temporarily to remove pipewire-media-session so you can drop wireplumber in it's place.
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#4 2021-10-26 06:40:35
- Ferdinand
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Re: Replacing pipewire-media-session with wireplumber
What V1del said.
Generally pactree is a good tool to see dependencies more clearly
To change the installation reason for a package between dependency and explicit use one of these:
# pacman -D --asdeps package_name
# pacman -D --asexplicit package_nameThe packages you want to keep must be explicitly installed, otherwise they'll be removed when all packages that depend on them are removed.
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