* David C. Rankin
On 9/28/20 4:39 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
On Leap 15.2, both firefox and chromium require libpipewire - I don't know if that is just our packaging though. as I understood pipewire is required (at least) for WebRTC screensharing when Firefox is running on wayland.
That may be, if you use any of that, but pipewire should not be bundled as a dependency of firefox. firefox works just fine without it. Plays video and audio just fine, etc..
This should definitely be one of those areas where the user has a choice. If the user needs all that fluff and wants pipewire to handle it, then they can certainly load pipewire. But for the user that doesn't use any of that, pipewire should not be up and running by default with no way to turn it off and now way to uninstall the openSUSE version pipewire without it also wanting to uninstall Firefox.
Remember, a new "feature" to some is a "bug" to others *if it can't be turned off*....
running Tw/plasma5/kde5 have pipewire/libpipewire.. installed but is not and to my knowledge has never been running. I do use firefox/seamonkey/waterfox/w3m/elinks, but no pipewire and: # zypper -v rm pipewire Verbosity: 2 Non-option program arguments: 'pipewire' Initializing Target Reading installed packages... Force resolution: Yes Selecting 'pipewire-0.3.11-1.1.x86_64' for removal. Resolving package dependencies... Force resolution: Yes The following 3 packages are going to be REMOVED: pipewire 0.3.11-1.1 pipewire-modules 0.3.11-1.1 pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2 0.3.11-1.1 3 packages to remove. After the operation, 3.6 MiB will be freed. Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): what you have is apparently your own. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org