On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:19 AM, FRIGN <d...@frign.de> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:09:11 -0400 > Andrew Gwozdziewycz <w...@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? > Other examples are the incorporation of udev in systemd (thank god > there's eudev and mdev), the assumption everyone uses non-tiling-wm's, > PAM, consolekit and many more. Where does that assumption come into play in Arch? I’m using a tiling WM with no problems.
