fix(packaging): the Pulse shim is never the client's, and never the host's requirement

Same bug as the Arch package, in the other two packagings. The .deb CLIENT recommended `pipewire-pulse`. Apt installs Recommends by default and the shim Conflicts with `pulseaudio`, so this proposed pulling the user's sound server out from under them in exchange for something the client cannot use: audio.rs drives libpipewire-0.3 directly and opens no Pulse socket. (SDL is initialized with zero subsystems — gamepads only, on demand — so it brings no audio backend either.) The RPM HOST hard-Required `pipewire-pulseaudio`, which conflicts with `pulseaudio` on Fedora too — uninstallable for anyone running real PulseAudio. The host doesn't speak Pulse either; the shim is for the GAMES, which commonly emit through the PulseAudio API, and real PulseAudio serves those equally well. Demoted to Recommends, so the default Fedora box is unchanged and the informed choice stops being blocked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 23:14:56 +02:00
parent 7d18468477
commit fa430646ff
2 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ SHDEPS="$SHDEPS, libvulkan1"

 # Manual additions shlibdeps can't see: the PipeWire daemon + session manager are runtime
 # services (audio playback / mic capture degrade gracefully without them — Recommends).
-RECOMMENDS="pipewire, wireplumber, pipewire-pulse"
+# NOT pipewire-pulse: the client speaks native PipeWire (audio.rs → libpipewire-0.3) and never
+# opens a Pulse socket, and the shim Conflicts with pulseaudio — so recommending it only nags
+# users who run real PulseAudio, in exchange for nothing the client can use.
+RECOMMENDS="pipewire, wireplumber"

 INSTALLED_KB="$(du -k -s "$STAGE" | cut -f1)"

@@ -104,8 +104,13 @@ BuildRequires:  vulkan-headers

 # --- Runtime -----------------------------------------------------------------
 Requires:       pipewire
-Requires:       pipewire-pulseaudio
 Requires:       wireplumber
+# The host captures the sink monitor through NATIVE PipeWire (audio/linux.rs) and never opens a
+# Pulse socket itself — the shim is for the GAMES, which commonly emit through the PulseAudio
+# API. Weak-dep, because `pipewire-pulseaudio` CONFLICTS with `pulseaudio`: as a hard Requires it
+# made the host uninstallable for anyone running real PulseAudio, which serves those games just
+# as well. Fedora installs pipewire-pulseaudio by default, so the default box is unaffected.
+Recommends:     pipewire-pulseaudio
 Requires:       opus
 Requires:       libei
 # FFmpeg runtime with NVENC (RPM Fusion). Weak-dep so the package installs even if