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

[Peter Lewis]

On Friday 23 Dec 2011 10:57:40 Ralf Madorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 13:02 +0330, ali.mousavi at gmail.com wrote:
> > you can't use gnome 3 without pulse audio. if you don't want to use
> > pulse audio, consider using another DE or WM.
> 
> At the moment I'm using Xfce only, but I will have the libre to use
> GNOME3 too, since it works without PA. It did work without PA for my
> Debian.
> 
> As mentioned before, at the moment only GDM is installed.

Then as Ali says, just use a different DM. There are several to choose from:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager

And if you want to, file a bug report upstream about the dependency on pulse.

Pete.