Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

[Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>]

Good time of the day, Harry.


You worte:

>
>Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
>
>I want to get rid of pulseaudio.  I almost never even use sound in
>linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu.  That seems a
>bit extreme some how.
>
>But anyway I don't need it.
>
>aptitude remove pulseaudio
>
>Offers what appear to be pretty ridiculous solutions.
>
>Things like uninstalling gnome-core.  Isn't that a bit dramatic just
>to get rid of pulseaudio?
>
>  Remove the following packages
>  1)
> gnome-accessibility 2)
> gnome-core 3)
> libcanberra-pulse 4)
> pulseaudio-esound-compat 5)
> pulseaudio-module-x11 6)
> task-gnome-desktop 
>       Leave the following dependencies
> unresolved: 7)     gnome-settings-daemon recommends
> pulseaudio 8)     speech-dispatcher recommends
> pulseaudio 9)     task-desktop recommends task-gnome-desktop |
> task-kde-desktop | task-lxde 
>Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 

I would recommend to try to remove/purge the "unresolved" manually
after You have removed the pulse-audio. Also, I have noted that there
is difference in abilities on removal that depends on what tool You use
- thus one thing is aptitude and another dpkg - where first will weep
  about dependencies unsatisfied, the second one may simply do what was
  required. It is not always the case but experience will bless Your
  life. :)

In nay way try different solutions w/ different tools. (I aware some
may say it is absolutely bad idea to mix the tools) - but I suppose
dpkg is used in anyway for aptitude or apt-get, so it is no sin - to
use both in some extremal cases - like pulse audio.

I never had a problem in purging the package yet remaining the
functionality of my systems (speaking about desktops only and using
sound in Debian).


Sthu.