On 2022-05-16 00:40:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force > users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of > VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with the alsa device). IMHO, this is > a bad use of Recommends. It is not up to applications to choose what > sound server to use, even via a meta-package like vlc. > > Shouldn't there be something in the policy about that?
Nothing forces pipewire on you. If you don't want it, don't install it. It isn't a dependency. And for the record: you get pipewire installed because libpipewire-0.3-0 recommends it. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher