Bug#1020249: PipeWire?

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:36 PM Herbert Snorrason <methanal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing this is why a.) my system removed pulseaudio in favour of pipewire
> and b.) removed gnome and gnome-core when I reinstalled pulseaudio to get
> working sound again.
>
> Do I understand correctly that I need to figure how to get pipewire working
> before the gnome and gnome-core packages can be installed again? Pipewire
> completely fails to start, and I really don't see how it's unreasonable to
> prefer continuing to use the sound system that, you know, works. :)

Did you restart your computer after installing pipewire?

If you still have issues, please file a new bug, probably against pipewire.

Generally, the GNOME metapackages are provided by the Debian GNOME
team to give users a complete working set of packages without allowing
arbitrary substitutions. It's possible to have a system without
gnome-core and gnome installed, but then you're on your own.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha