Michael Fox escribió: [ first, this is not the adecuate list to ask for this issue, please use opensuse-factory, or in case you have a concrete package problem, opensuse-packaging instead]
secondly : Dependencies - there are tones of apps that have no relation to libpulse are somehow dependant on libpulse, for instance why does a weather widget for KDE4.2 need libpulse.
Evidence please, specific package name an repository source.
-Mplayer was linked against liubpulse so will not run when libpulse is removed but mplayer uses ffmpeg for its codecs so being linked against libpulse seems like unnecessary (ended up building mplayer by hand from svn).
seems to be necessary , there are unneeded libraries linked.. ldd -u -r /usr/bin/mplayer Unused direct dependencies: /usr/lib64/libaudiofile.so.0 /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2 /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib64/liblzo2.so.2 /usr/lib64/libogg.so.0 /usr/lib64/liboil-0.3.so.0 /lib64/librt.so.1 but libpulse is not one of them
- and many apps that say they need libpulse, but run fine without it when that dependency is ignored, but as i pointed out some apps do not run without lib pulse but could.
thirdly: my 2 cents -libpulse should not be a linked app,
libpulse is only a library, not an application. -- "If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed" -George Carlin (1937-2008) Cristian Rodríguez R. Software Developer Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/