[SOLVED] I want pulseaudio off my system

[MartinB]

I ran emerge -C pulseaudio, then added "-pulseaudio" to my use flags, but when I run emerge --update --deep --newuse @world, it still wants to install pulseaudio. I don't even know why I should use pulseaudio, it seems to do nothing but cause problems and my system has always been fine before without it. Every time I run something with sound like mplayer, it restarts pulseaudio and causes problems. When my system doesn't have pulseaudio installed, I can run apps just fine without it and I don't have any problems.

Please can someone help me rid pulseaudio from my system once and for all?

Cheers,
Martin
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[The Doctor]

Welcome to the club!

Okay, first you should mask it. You know you don't want it, ever. So you should tell portage. Next, you should check equery d pulseaudo You may have to eliminate a few packages, but most should still be conditional. You may want to also set the alsa use flag if you have not already.

To finish, just run your update. It should finish just fine.
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[MartinB]

Thanks, equery d pulseaudio didn't show any packages depending on pulseaudio, but I noticed afterwards that I had pavucontrol installed and in my world file, since I had been trying to use it to solve pulseaudio problems before. Removing this package did the trick.
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