Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully
On my machine, I built a dummy package called something like
pulseaudio-bogus as an empty package to simply fill the requirement. I
used equivs to do this:
apt-get install equivs
Then create a control file called, say, pulseaudio.ctl:
Section: web
Package: pulseaudio-bogus
Provides: pulseaudio
Description: Pulse Audio dummy package
This package provides dpkg with the information that
there is a sound server installed.
.
apps requiring pulse etc. won't bug you any more
At that point, I ran equivs-build pulseaudio.ctl, and it built,
effectively, an empty package that contained the Provides.
--b
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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