On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:28:42AM -0700, Ryan O’Hara wrote: > 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?
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/
