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