Comment 5 for bug 1768291

Same as what Chris mentioned. I occasionally use a Hauppauge 950Q USB device that has IR support on my laptop, but I don't keep it plugged in 24/7 since I frequently travel with this laptop. I don't want to mess around with scripts and disable services, so right now my "workaround" is to only install lirc when I want to use it, and uninstall it when I don't need it.

The maintainer seems to assume that all IR devices are built in and connected 24/7 since he thinks the only a bad dependency can result in lirc being installed without an IR device connected so he sees nothing wrong with the syslog being spammed with messages about it.