On 29 January 2012 18:44, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > [snip] > When I've got a set up and I'll upgrade it, it's ok if things get > borked, because of a new sound server. But if a group of people file bug > reports, than it's ignorant not to fix the new sound server, but instead > to demand that it must become dependency for more and more software even > if it has nothing to do with audio. > > - Ralf > GDM has to do with audio. It supports everything gnome wants to support. Which means it needs audio to either play a sound when you input a wrong password or to read the usernames aloud in case the user has visibility problems. It might work without pulseaudio (dummy package), sure, but it might not work as intended. The guys at the Gnome project decided they want pulseaudio. Now you can either try and convince them to drop support or convince the PulseAudio team to fix it's problems.
-- Thanasis Georgiou
