Pulseaudio can't be removed transparently any longer.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: pulseaudio
Pulseaudio has been a very large source of problems and bugs since it has been included as default. This is not a surprise given it's "extra" layer of complexity and poor comptibility with wrapping existing ALSA applications. Maybe totem and rythmbox work fine, but for those who use many other audio related apps that are not jack-based (such as sound editors, trackers, emulators, etc), incompatibility with it is constantly an issue and blaming the applications for not being pulseaudio-friendly is avoiding the problem at best.
Given every new ubuntu version comes packed with new pulseaudio bugs (crashes, then 100% usage peaks, and now sound corruption and glitchiness in karmic which still aren't fixed). I always proceeded to either uninstalling it or replacing it by OSS4, which works flawlessly and perfect.
However, doing so in 9.10 will make all volume controls, totem, sound preferences, etc stop working, with no way to fix it given it seems to be too tied up to pulseaudio.
I'd report pulseaudio existense as a bug itself, but since i can't, i'm reporting that there's no easy way to get rid of it.
