Quoting Arno Schuring (aelschur...@hotmail.com):
> > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:16:55 +0200
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> [..]
> >
> > You can't install gnome without the pulseaudio libraries, but it runs
> > perfectly fine without the daemon.
> >
> 
> On Debian?
> 
> $ aptitude why gnome-core pulseaudio
> p   gnome-core Depends pulseaudio

There's a thread starting at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00616.html
discussing this new meaning of the word "core". Note for example that
gnome-core also depends on the "essential component" iceweasel and
5 dozen other packages!

> This to me suggests that it doesn't even install without the daemon.

No idea. I don't use it.

Cheers,
David.

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