[Bug 1816278] Re: lubuntu-desktop requires pulseaudio to be installed

2019-02-18 Thread Forest
>The solution: install the basic components or simply uninstall pavucontrol-qt. >It will remove lubuntu-desktop but that's just a metafile. It won't remove your >entire installation. Wouldn't that leave all the remaining lubuntu packages marked as automatically installed, and therefore slated for

[Bug 1816278] Re: lubuntu-desktop requires pulseaudio to be installed

2019-02-16 Thread Walter Lapchynski
With regards to lubuntu-desktop, we expect that metapackage to provide a particular experience and that includes a user-friendly sound mixer. We also expect it to include a terminal emulator. Xubuntu does things a little bit different: both the sound mixer and the terminal emulator (as a corollary;

[Bug 1816278] Re: lubuntu-desktop requires pulseaudio to be installed

2019-02-16 Thread Walter Lapchynski
If you look at the upstream codebase for pavucontrol-qt: https://github.com/lxqt/pavucontrol-qt you can see it's "A Pulseaudio mixer in Qt." So obviously it will require Pulseaudio, as you can see in the build instructions. ** Changed in: pavucontrol-qt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid --

[Bug 1816278] Re: lubuntu-desktop requires pulseaudio to be installed

2019-02-16 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I'll add it's actually problematic that pavucontrol (not -qt) recommends pulseaudio instead of depending on it. If you look at the upstream codebase: https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/ it says "Obviously pavucontrol requires an installation of PulseAudio." -- You received t