There is an updated pull request by ericonr against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/ericonr/void-packages pulse https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/28771 pulseaudio: remove rtkit dependency. PulseAudio doesn't need rtkit available to work for basic usage, so it's better to only pull it in when a user wants realtime (the error messages should also be clear enough). Since rtkit now pulls in a complex dependency in polkit, we can avoid pulseaudio also pulling the whole thing in. I have yet to test this throroughly. Basic functionality is fine. @q66 A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/28771.patch is attached