On Thu March 12 2009 4:24:22 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: en make a stub library AND the big 'kaboodle' library which could then be left out if someone wanted to remove
the package without destroying the links you mentioned necessary for those other functions you mentioned used by KDE, Gnome or other libraries that might use the package.
That's precisely what I have been saying all along: pulseaudio is designed that way. There is a library you can not remove, and if you try it will remove the desktop, and there is the big rest which you can remove.
In fact, if you go to YaST, Hardware, Sound configuration, then on the "Other" button there is a list, one of which items says "Pulse Audio configuration", which if selected allows you to enable or disable pulseaudio.
I fact, mine is disabled.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
We are nearly on the same wavelength, I think....the difference is that it is slightly more than just 'disabling' something that is installed versus not installing something in the first place or at least minimizing the amount of stuff that is installed by removing most of the package. Simply installing the package and the libraries and then simply saying to Yast to not execute or use that code is a waste of space/memory and reduces the probability that older/smaller machines can load/run SuSE or upgrade from older versions to newer (bloated) versions that use the unwanted libraries and defaulted but unused programs that can't be removed even if disabled. FWIW, I too disable PA, Beagle and a number of other defaulted 'features' in SuSE and prefer 3.5.10 KDE even though I devote a machine to testing 4.2 and until the other night, that machine ran also 11.1 until the factory update when it crashed and burned. When I want to DO anything, I return to 11.0 and 3.5.10, no Beagle or PA, use KMail, Firefox, VBox (when I need XP for something), read all of your, Freds, Larry's and David Rankins' posts religously (and a few others) and try to ignore the KDE4 rabble-rousers that shout so loud. Carlos, I'm not as fatalistic as you are, but usually you give good advice....but not to go elsewhere.... :( -- Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org