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

[Ralf Madorf]

On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 10:38 +0100, Stefan Wilkens wrote:
> Pulse recently replaced esound as the dependent sound server for
> gnome[1], esound has been marked dead.
> 
> You might have some relative success if you drop pulse and do some
> per-application configuration to redirect their default output to alsa
> or OSS. While this would work for applications such as gstreamer
> (gstreamer-properties), pidgin, vlc, mplayer.. you will find yourself
> with a broken gnome. You'll need a new mixer application, setup
> software mixing (or hardware if your card privides) etc.
> 
> You may find life simpler by disabling [2] pulse, rather than removing it.
> 
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/PulseAudio
> [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=928817#p928817

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.

- Ralf