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

[Jonathan Vasquez]

Arch Linux stands by being as close as possible to upstream. If upstream
makes a decision, Arch follows it. Arch hardly patches anything at all. So
basically whatever packages you get when you try to install something, is
the way that upstream wanted those packages to be installed.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> 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
>
>


-- 
Jonathan Vasquez