Bug#676652: purging pulseaudio and things

[shirish शिरीष]

I purged pulseaudio and it purged other stuff too :-

$ sudo aptitude purge pulseaudio
[sudo] password for shirish:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 pulseaudio{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 72 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 4,835 kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libcanberra-pulse : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be installed.
 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going
to be installed.
 pulseaudio-module-x11 : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be
installed.
 pulseaudio-module-gconf : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to
be installed.
 pulseaudio-module-jack : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to
be installed.
 pulseaudio-esound-compat : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to
be installed.
 gnome-core : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be installed.
 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going
to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)      gnome
2)      gnome-core
3)      gnome-desktop-environment
4)      libcanberra-pulse
5)      paprefs
6)      pulseaudio-esound-compat
7)      pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
8)      pulseaudio-module-gconf
9)      pulseaudio-module-jack
10)     pulseaudio-module-x11
11)     pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
12)     task-gnome-desktop

     Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
13)     gnome-media recommends pulseaudio
14)     gnome-settings-daemon recommends pulseaudio
15)     speech-dispatcher recommends pulseaudio


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y

I have KDE also hence switched to KDE and then purged pulseaudio
(hence also removing all that other stuff, esp. GNOME and GNOME core).

On rebooting something called xwud on KDE tells me this :-

KDE detected that one or more devices were removed. Do you want KDE to
permanently forget about these devices :-

This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed

.  Output : HDA Intel, VT1705 Analog (Default Audio Device).

when I tried doing :-

~$  aplay -D pulse /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
Connection refused

aplay: main:682: audio open error: Connection refused

I got the above error.

Looking forward to ideas.
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