Re: esound

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> All I know is on my stripped down computer with no speakers (except
> for the boot beep beeper), I asked myself: why can I dpkg-purge
> esound-clients, but then if I do apt-get dist-upgrade (vs.
> dselect-upgrade), it gets installed back again?
>
> Well it turns out esound-clients is depended on by libesd0 which
> removing would cause
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   gnumeric gnuplot gnuplot-mode gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11 icewm
>   libbonoboui2-0 libesd0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgoffice-0-6
>   libwxgtk2.6-0
>
> So no easy way to say, "I don't have sound on this device, so no need
> to install sound items".
>
>
>   
Interesting. In unstable:

libgnome2-0 depends on libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35)
ibesd0 recommends esound-clients            
libesd-alsa0 recommends esound-clients

(note this is only a recommends, not depends, should possibly be a suggests)

In Ubunty Hardy the first depends doesn't appear to exist.

Brian May