Re: Policy: should libraries depend on services (daemons) that they can speak to?

[Dylan Aïssi <bob.dybian@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Le dim. 7 janv. 2024 à 20:40, Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> a écrit :
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> 1. libpulse0 & friends
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> libpulse0 is a client library for the Pulseaudio server. It doesn't do
> much without pulseaudio.
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> Q: Should libpulse0 have Depends: pulseaudio?

Please don't do that. At least one pipewire module depends on libpulse0
(libpipewire-module-pulse-tunnel from the libpipewire-0.3-modules package).
But, pulseaudio is useless in this case that means it will be unnecessarily
pulled.

Best regards,
Dylan