Removing pulseaudio

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:01:35PM +0800, Double Dark wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-10 13:37:32 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> >
> >I'd like to remove pulseaudio, but it depends on ubuntu-destop, the removal
> >of which is not recommended since it depends on all of the packages in the
> >Ubuntu desktop system.
> >
> >If I select pulseaudio for removal in Synaptic it also selects
> >ubuntu-desktop, and synaptic will not allow me then to unselect
> >ubuntu-desktop by itself.
> >
> >What's the best way to do this?
> 
> You can remove the package directly with dpkg with the options -r or -P.

But it is not a good idea to do so -- it'll break dependency constraints
and leave your packaging system in a failed state, breaking updates and
GUI tools like the software center.

Marius Gedminas
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