#1007803 plasma-pa: Could dependency on pulseaudio-module-gsettings be lessened?

Package:
plasma-pa
Source:
plasma-pa
Description:
Plasma 5 Volume controller
Submitter:
chris
Date:
2022-03-17 04:03:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1007803#5
Date:
2022-03-17 03:58:46 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

`plasma-pa` has `pulseaudio-module-gsettings` in its recommend dependencies and it is conflicting with `pipewire` / `wireplumber`, because it causes the installation of `pulseaudio`.

At the moment I don't have `pulseaudio-module-gsettings` installed, since it's only a recommend dependency, I'm not compelled to install it.

I've initially put that issue on `pulseaudio-module-gsettings` package, but the maintainer of this package said nothing could be fixed from his side. They also said that installing `pulseaudio` was not conflicting "per se" with `pipewire`. And I want to believe them. I think it does make more complicated to have `pipewire` working.

<quote>
What you really want is the reverse dependencies (either
plasma-pa or paprefs) to not require gsettings, or get pipewire to
implement module-gsettings (and then add the alternative to each package).
See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1066 and
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/771
</quote>

Thanks,
Chris