On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > One problem with the installation OS is that it’s pulling ALSA and all
> > sorts of sound-related libraries (libsamplerate, etc.), which clearly is
> > unnecessary in the installation image.  That comes from the alsa-utils
> > udev rules.  We could remove those udev rules, but since they’re in
> > %base-services, I chose not to do that to avoid breaking everyone’s
> > config.
> 
> I’m in favour of moving them elsewhere, such as %desktop-services.

Or we could just remove the sound services from the installation image.