Re: another pulseaudio horror story

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:33 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 07 January 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > > Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes:
> > > > > Add me to the list of folks who had to nuke as much of pulseaudio as I
> > > > > could without ripping out 2/3rds of kde.
> > > > Huh? What was it trying to remove and why (i.e. what PA stuff did it
> > > > depend on)? Normally the only KDE package you have to remove when removing
> > > > PA is kde-settings-pulseaudio (duh...).
> > > >
> > > >        Kevin Kofler
> > > I finally got working audio back, seems there is an alsa-pulse package,
> > > that because the list is sorted alphabetical, wasn't noted at first.
> > >
> > > Ferinstance, dependency hell.. Just trying to remove akode-pulseaudio gets
> > > all this:
> > >
> > > Humm, can't seem to make kmail insert a .png, and I'm not gonna hand copy
> > > that list, its akode, kdeaddons-extras, and all 8 pieces of kde-muiltmedia
> > > that
> > > will go out with it.  That's BS.
> > akode-pulseaudio is harmless, chill. :)
> ----
> Rex, for those of us on F8 & KDE, wanting to use pulseaudio
>
> do we still need to load pulseaudio.sh per...
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/PulseAudioKDE?
>
> or does simply installing the packages handle all of that for me? I
> can't really tell.

Installing does everything needed. That wiki page was used to brain 
storm a solution.

Rahul