vlc/vlc-nox distinction

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-08-19 00:29:43, Edward Wang wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:13:16 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher
> <sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
> >I've pushed a work-in-progress feature/vlc-plugins branch [1]. vlc-nox
> >has been left alive. Looking at the popcon data there seems to be
> >interest in the package (vlc: 51349 installs vs. vlc-nox: 53687
> >installs). I've done the following instead:
> >
> >  - Improved the check if plugins in vlc-nox link against libX11 or
> >    libxcb.
> >  - Moved the RDP plugin to vlc as it is linked to libX11 via
> >    libfreerdp1.
> >  - Killed vlc-plugin-pulse and moved the PulseAudio plugins to vlc.
> >    Xfce, KDE and Gnome all pull in libpulse0 anyway, so I think there is
> >    no need for the split.
> 
> What about users who don't use PulseAudio and are instead using some other
> audio output?

They still can. Installing libpulse0 doesn't automatically pull in
pulseaudio and forces you to use it. In fact, if you install vlc without
installing vlc-plugin-pulse today, you already get libpulse0:

$ apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse- -s -V | egrep "libpulse|vlc-plugin-pulse"
Package 'vlc-plugin-pulse' is not installed, so not removed
   libpulse0 (5.0-6)
   libpulse0 (5.0-6)
Inst libpulse0 (5.0-6 Debian:unstable [amd64])
Conf libpulse0 (5.0-6 Debian:unstable [amd64])

This split might have made sense a few years ago when PulseAudio was new
and nobody used it, bit this really isn't the case anymore.

> As for the GUI-pulse dependencies, they might be using something like LXDE
> which doesn't pull in Xfce/KDE/Gnome dependencies.

LXDE also pulls in libpulse0:

$ apt-get install -s -V task-lxde-desktop | grep libpulse0
   libpulse0 (5.0-6)
   libpulse0 (5.0-6)
Inst libpulse0 (5.0-6 Debian:unstable [amd64])
Conf libpulse0 (5.0-6 Debian:unstable [amd64])

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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