Comment 149 for bug 198453

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William Pitcock (nenolod) wrote : Re: [Bug 198453] Re: Default ALSA device must use PulseAudio, otherwise ALSA applications may fail

dpkg --remove --force-depends pulseaudio

not that this is a sound idea, but thanks for playing.

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 04:03 +0000, Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote:
> Daniel, if "you are free to remove this if you don't like it" is the
> official position on the devs, should I file a new bug about ubuntu-
> desktop depending on (and not recommending instead) pulseaudio? As it
> currently is, pulseaudio can not be removed whithout breaking the
> upgrade ability.
>
> Alternatively, if pulseaudio actually IS the essential and unremovable
> part of an Ubuntu installation, maybe it's not a good idea to point out
> that users can remove this buggy pile of garbage completely, which they
> can't?
>