dear Bruce,

thanks for hinting about alsactl, I suspect checking the dependencies
of this package may make the life easier to a number of people
installing Devuan without using the desktop task.

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Bruce Perens wrote:

>    And the solution is: run alsactl init.
>    Does any package install script try to run it?

it is called by the sysvinit script of the 'alsa-utils' package

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.1.6-1
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel@???>
Installed-Size: 2,170 kB
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), whiptail | dialog, libasound2 (>= 1.1.1), libc6 (>= 2.27), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::hardware, admin::kernel, devel::lang:c,
devel::library, implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode,
role::devel-lib, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring,
works-with::audio
Download-Size: 1,052 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages
Description: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA


among the reverse dependencies, I see as relevant:


task-desktop,alsa-utils
libasound2-data,alsa-utils

which should bring it in, somehow.

I think it is a good idea to elevate the priority of alsa-utils from
'optional' to something more apt for its role.


ciao