core-packages installs ffmpeg, which depends on the virtual `jack`. With only
`pipewire` (not pipewire-jack) requested, pacman --noconfirm picks the default
provider `jack2`. The DE modules then install `pipewire-jack`, which conflicts
with the already-installed jack2 — pacman can't auto-resolve it and aborts the
whole DE module ("pipewire-jack and jack2 are in conflict").
Explicitly list pipewire-jack/pipewire-pulse/pipewire-alsa in core-packages so
PipeWire is the chosen provider from the start; jack2 is never pulled and the DE
package install no longer conflicts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R5kHioUMK3mtf2eiLEozCM
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki
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