Pulseaudio

[steffie]

moin,

equo remove pulseaudio --nodeps

stephan@sabsandy ~ $ boincmgr
boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libpulse-simple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

stephan@sabsandy ~ $ filezilla
filezilla: error while loading shared libraries: libpulse-simple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

why in hell ??

cu, hf, stephan

[micia]

If you remove a package that provides a library other applications rely into, it is obvious that those applications won't run anymore.
There is a reason for pulseaudio being pulled in as a dependency.

[Avanesov]

Out of curiosity, why would an ftp program like filezilla have an audio dependancy?

[micia]

It is not guaranteed that those applications directly depend on pulseaudio, probably they depend on a library that depends on pulseaudio, thus the loading process fails because pulseaudio can't be found.
Also, it isn't strange for a GUI to wish to play a sound nowadays.

[sabayonino]

Out of curiosity, why would an ftp program like filezilla have an audio dependancy?

filezzilla ha s a dbus dep. and dbus check pulse-audio

[Avanesov]

Ahh, gotchya

[steffie]

giving up, equo install pulseaudio > no more sound problems, but why?

do not know why a remove and reinstall solves sound hassels...

>filezzilla ha s a dbus dep. and dbus check pulse-audio

in sumary there is no chance to use sabayon whithout pulseaudio, only alsa for sound?

[sabayonino]

in sumary there is no chance to use sabayon whithout pulseaudio, only alsa for sound?

you can rename pulseaudio exutable in /usr/bin without removal and keep alsa working.

[micia]

in sumary there is no chance to use sabayon whithout pulseaudio, only alsa for sound?

No, there isn't (unless you use the trick suggested by sabayonino), as there isn't in any current Linux distro, since most of the times they just split pulseaudio libraries from the executable, thus pulseaudio is always used, but the daemon isn't started.
That is basically the same approach suggested by sabayonino, just in a "package manager assisted" way.

It is an unfortunate (in my humble opinion) fact that pulseaudio has become a de facto standard for most desktop environments, your only chance of completely getting rid of it is using portage by disabling globally the pulseaudio USE flag. But that will involve heavy portage usage, it is not recommended for unexperienced users.

[steffie]

thx, i think i will shop your "it is not recommended for unexperienced users."

and do the suggested rename hint from little sabayonino