Re: PulseAudio sound issues

[Alejandro Santos <listas@alejolp.com>]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 11 Oct 2012 at 10:21:54 -0300, Alejandro Santos wrote:
>
>>
>> My workaround so far was to remove the execution permissions on
>> PulseAdio with: chmod a-x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>
> The Debian way:
>
>    update-rc.d pulseaudio disable
>

By default, PulseAudio is on Debian Wheezy configured not to start as
an init.d SysV daemon. That won't work.

>> 2. I can't purge the package with "aptitude purge pulseaudio" since
>> the package "pulseaudio" is a dependency on "gnome-core". After
>> killing PulseAudio, the sound works fine. I'm a software developer
>> myself, and I can't help keep asking myself, why is PulseAudio an
>> strong dependency on Gnome? What advantages does PulseAudio gives me
>> as a user over good ol' ALSA?
>
> I'm just a user and I ask myself, why install gnome-core when all the
> bits and pieces to make a customised GNOME are in the archive?
>

Since I am not a native English speaker I must be missing something in
the translation on my head. Can you explain further this comment?

Thanks,

-- 
Alejandro Santos