Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire
On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 12:56:03AM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2022-05-16 00:40:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force
> > users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of
> > VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with the alsa device). IMHO, this is
> > a bad use of Recommends. It is not up to applications to choose what
> > sound server to use, even via a meta-package like vlc.
> >
> > Shouldn't there be something in the policy about that?
>
> Nothing forces pipewire on you. If you don't want it, don't install it.
> It isn't a dependency.
>
> And for the record: you get pipewire installed because libpipewire-0.3-0
> recommends it.
For a similar situation, I advocated to add a apt option so that apt
only install Recommends of the packages on the command line, but not
Recommends of dependencies (and not Recommends of Recommends).
This would make recommends more usable but less deterministic.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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