I believe you have to remove each package that pulseaudio depends on. You can reinstall them after. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 11:17 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: > > can you clarify that you are talking about pulseaudio and not about > > libpulse? > > # pacman -Rss pulseaudio > checking dependencies... > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) > :: gnome-settings-daemon: requires pulseaudio > :: pulseaudio-alsa: requires pulseaudio > > > > -- Jonathan Vasquez