Removing pulseaudio

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:37 AM, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to remove pulseaudio, but it depends on ubuntu-destop, the removal
> of which is not recommended since it depends on all of the packages in the
> Ubuntu desktop system.
>
> If I select pulseaudio for removal in Synaptic it also selects
> ubuntu-desktop, and synaptic will not allow me then to unselect
> ubuntu-desktop by itself.
>
> What's the best way to do this?

You can use dpkg to force the removal of pulse audio and then use
equivs to satisfy the dependency.

But why do you feel that you need to uninstall PA? There must be a way
to configure it to work the way that you want (you're use case can't
be THAT unique!) or to be a noop - or you've hit a bug and you should
report it.