Am Donnerstag 02 August 2018 schrieb William Morder:
I searched the forums, tried various solutions, and eventually just purged everything possible that I could find connected to pulse. (I always preferred ALSA, anyway.) Some Trinity packages seem to depend on pulse or pulse libraries, though, so I wonder if it's possible to get rid of everything pulse without breaking my system.
On a side note, I have similar problems with VLC. I cannot actually *use* it, as it crashes every time. I have made do with smplayer, which is okay, I guess, but I still miss the old VLC. When I try to uninstall or purge VLC, however, I find that it would also uninstall practically all my KDE and TDE packages.
I don't think that TDE depends on pulse, at least not the base libraries. I have not *all* TDE packages installed, but quite a copious install and there is no pulse (on Devuan ascii).
If you find a pulse program/package you can try to find out why it is installed with this handy command:
$ aptitude why <package>
Kind regards, Stefan