On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 16:37:06 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > So the question is, what does it mean if $ aptitude show > pulseaudio/pavucontrol does not show systemd as a dependent, but when I > start to install either, systemd will be installed. There should be a > way to install them while preventing systemd from being dragged in at > the same time.
to...@tuxteam.de has given the solution to this earlier. A refinement is to install the pavucontrol dependencies one by one. The moment you get policykit-1 coming into the picture add --no-install-recommends for that package. Tedious, but it is what one has to do for one's principles. :)