On 11/10/2012 18:07, Alejandro Santos wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Brian<ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:On Thu 11 Oct 2012 at 10:21:54 -0300, Alejandro Santos wrote:
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2. I can't purge the package with "aptitude purge pulseaudio" since the package "pulseaudio" is a dependency on "gnome-core". After killing PulseAudio, the sound works fine. I'm a software developer myself, and I can't help keep asking myself, why is PulseAudio an strong dependency on Gnome? What advantages does PulseAudio gives me as a user over good ol' ALSA?I'm just a user and I ask myself, why install gnome-core when all the bits and pieces to make a customised GNOME are in the archive?Since I am not a native English speaker I must be missing something in the translation on my head. Can you explain further this comment? Thanks,
Not a native English speaker either, but what I understand is: don't install metapackages and then complain that they are crap-bags, use them as guidance to install what you really need among their dependencies.