Comment 125 for bug 301755

I think the important bit is that "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio" is removed and hence pulseaudio is not started with the session. However, I think I also tried to rm this file (without removing the package) and found pulseaudio running again.

"sudo apt-get remove -purge pulseaudio" will remove "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio". "sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio" will not. My knowledge of apt is sketchy at best (I'm an ex-gentoo user), so I'm not exactly sure where to look to truly figure out what else apt is doing.