Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

On 12/23/2011 05:03 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:

So I should install PA, while not using it? Is this the interpretation of KISS by Arch Linux?

I already have written that I'll use a HDSP card = HDSP mixer, a desktop mixer thingy won't be able to handle such an audio card and my sound server will be Jack with ALSA backend.

Your definition of simple sounds more like Gentoo's. Is it really worth the effort to save 5 MB of disk space (while having random broken packages)?