[Mageia-discuss] Package management system

[Ahmad Samir]

On 29 September 2010 22:12, Renaud MICHEL <r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On mercredi 29 septembre 2010 at 20:39, Ahmad Samir wrote :
>> > Many many more are kde applications. This is 2010.1 x86_64
>>
>> Yes, it's a bit on an indirect dependency phonon requires libpulse.so:
>> $ urpmf --requires lib64phonon4 | grep pulse
>> lib64phonon4:libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0()(64bit)
>> lib64phonon4:libpulse.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>> and of course removing phonon would remove many more kde4 packages.
>
> But those dependencies are provided by
> lib64pulseaudio0
> lib64pulseglib20
> so you can uninstall the daemon (pulseaudio) and keep those libraries for
> the packages that need them.
>
> The gnome part is more tricky, because gnome requires esound, which is
> provided by pulseaudio-esound-compat (which requires pulseaudio daemon), and
> you don't have anymore a real esound packaged anymore, so you would need to
> get a package from an older mandriva.
>
> --
> Renaud Michel
>

Yes, you're right about esound.

And if pulseaudio is disabled you get no sound applet in the gnome panel.

-- 
Ahmad Samir