On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:28:42AM -0700, Ryan O’Hara wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:19 AM, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:09:11 -0400
> > Andrew Gwozdziewycz <web_AT_apgwoz.com> wrote:
> > …
> >> Don't want pulseaudio? Fine, don't install it. Don't want GNOME? Don't
> >> install it. The number of *available* packages has no impact on that,
> >> but it sure is convenient when installation is a 'pacman -S' away.
> >
> > It does have an impact when certain packages become a "standard".
> > For instance, Microsoft dropped ALSA-support in Skype in favor of
> > pulseaudio as a part of their EEE tactic.
>
> How do you usually get around Skype being Skype?
Have a separate /emul namespace for crapware. Use ns-tools[0] to manage
it.
This also helps with multilib crap.
[0]
http://git.r-36.net/ns-tools/
Received on Tue Jun 24 2014 - 17:33:25 CEST