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Re: PulseAudio sound issues

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On 11/10/2012 19:20, Yaro Kasear wrote:

On 10/11/2012 12:10 PM, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:

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.
Fortunately if you don't use GNOME (Why anyone subjects themselves to GNOME 3 willingly is beyond me, but a different topic altogether. There's a very good reason why MATE forked off.), then you don't have to put up with Pulseaudio usually. It really is a pain to work with if you don't accept its default configurations, which have a 50% chance of guessing the ideal settings for your system wrong. Frankly I've always found that bare ALSA works fine in almost all cases, a far higher functionality rate than PA.
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