Am Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:08:40 -0700 schrieb David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>:
I found it more annoying to uninstall pulseaudio than difficult. And it's fair to say I was already annoyed, so there has also been a cathartic element to it.
Basically, using whatever package manager was appropriate to the distribution, I searched and removed pulse*, remembering that some packages that list pulseaudio as a dependency are in fact meta-packages that simply exist to bring in all associated packages and which can in fact be removed once you have a functioning installation (though you may find you want to mark other desired packages as manually selected).
This sounds like PA isn't a dependency for GNOME any longer? This would mean that it's just a downstream bug, and PA should be handled as an optional dependency or not as a dependency at all by the distros. Heiko