Can pulseaudio be gotten rid of?? Karmic...

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 16:53 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 25 October 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
> > I wish to rid my install of pulseaudio. I thought I had it licked, but
> > it keeps popping up via updates. Once in for all times, how to get RID
> > of this POS? Why not keep it in beta mode for people to install if they
> > wish to tinker with it, until all the bugs are worked out?? Meanwhile,
> > it's upsetting my apple cart. :) Ric
> > 
> 
> I got rid of it....   and I am a better person for it.   
> 
> Using Alsa.

I'm using Alsa, as pure and as pristine as I can manage it. BUT, if you
try to remove libpulseXXX it'll remove your entire KDE desktop and even
graphical apps. But, just within the last week, mplayer can't find alsa.
Xine is working fine. I had everything working JUST LIKE I LIKE IT, and
now it's blown up. <sighs> This is what gets old. I would dearly love to
see Pulseaudio be an "extra" and not a system depend. Ric