Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

[Christof Damian]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 15:14, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I am curious: If pavucontrol is obsolete, is there some other tool to
>> tell skype to use headsets, while rhythmbox uses the speakers?
>
> It's not obsolete, it's just not installed by default.
>
>> pavucontrol currently crashes (and pulseaudio) for me on one machine
>> and I need this functionality.
>
> File bugs!

I do, but this one is already in bugzilla as far as I can see. I just
wanted to mention why I am looking for an alternative.

Christof