On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:36 PM Herbert Snorrason <metha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm guessing this is why a.) my system removed pulseaudio in favour of > pipewire > and b.) removed gnome and gnome-core when I reinstalled pulseaudio to get > working sound again. > > Do I understand correctly that I need to figure how to get pipewire working > before the gnome and gnome-core packages can be installed again? Pipewire > completely fails to start, and I really don't see how it's unreasonable to > prefer continuing to use the sound system that, you know, works. :)
Did you restart your computer after installing pipewire? If you still have issues, please file a new bug, probably against pipewire. Generally, the GNOME metapackages are provided by the Debian GNOME team to give users a complete working set of packages without allowing arbitrary substitutions. It's possible to have a system without gnome-core and gnome installed, but then you're on your own. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha
