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Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:02 pm
by euzao
Hey, I'd like first of all thank you for the great distro you made.
I had to install pipewire in order to have proper bluetooth headset support. So I installed pipewire-setup-mx, uninstalled pulseaudio and everything worked just fine. But sadly I had firefox uninstalled.
Why don't you make pulseaudio as a recommended package instead of a hard dependency to firefox? I created a dummy package of pulseaudio (using equivs) to install it and worked just fine. In Debian's official firefox package (firefox-esr), pulseaudio is a recommended package, not a hard dependency.
Re: Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:04 pm
by dolphin_oracle
I used to put a "provides" on pipewire-setup-mx, but the new pipewire packages cause it to be removed because they have a "conflict" with pulseaudio
but I agree on removing the pulseaudio depend from firefox. @mmikeinsantarosa what do you think? should only be a change in the control file to remove pulseaudio and apulse.
Re: Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:35 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:04 pm
I used to put a "provides" on pipewire-setup-mx, but the new pipewire packages cause it to be removed because they have a "conflict" with pulseaudio
but I agree on removing the pulseaudio depend from firefox. @mmikeinsantarosa what do you think? should only be a change in the control file to remove pulseaudio and apulse.
Sure thing. I'll try to get it up tonight. I'll pull these two
and send up a +2
Re: Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:47 pm
by dolphin_oracle
mmikeinsantarosa wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:35 pm
dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:04 pm
I used to put a "provides" on pipewire-setup-mx, but the new pipewire packages cause it to be removed because they have a "conflict" with pulseaudio
but I agree on removing the pulseaudio depend from firefox. @mmikeinsantarosa what do you think? should only be a change in the control file to remove pulseaudio and apulse.
Sure thing. I'll try to get it up tonight. I'll pull these two
and send up a +2
mighty neighborly of you to get it so fast, thanks!
Re: Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:53 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
forgot to ask, both buster & bullseye?
Re: Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:01 pm
by timkb4cq
I think it might be better to add pipewire as a sound provider option rather than remove the others.
pulseaudio | apulse | pipewire,
Re: Firefox should not depend on pulseaudio - Pipewire works just fine
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:49 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
timkb4cq wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:01 pm
I think it might be better to add pipewire as a sound provider option rather than remove the others.
pulseaudio | apulse | pipewire,
thanks Tim. Will do.