[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1038627: general: Various applications log PipeWire-related errors on a Bookworm system using PulseAudio.

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 10:47:49 +0300, Yura wrote:
> After upgrade to Bookworm, due to certain limitations of the current
> PipeWire implementation I had to switch to PulseAudio. The switch was
> done by installing pulseaudio package, deleting all PipeWire packages and 
> finally enabling pulseaudio service on a user level. 

Pipewire is not just for audio, it's also used for video capture
(that's why xdg-desktop-portal needs it, and the same is probably true
for other applications).

To disable the audio side of Pipewire, my understanding is that it should
be sufficient to remove pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa, pipewire-jack
and libspa-0.2-bluetooth, while leaving pipewire and wireplumber installed.

    smcv