Are we forced to have either pulseaudio or pipewire installed?

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computer.user
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Joined: 02/04/2025

When I uninstall pipewire, pulseaudio is automatically installed. When I uninstall pulseaudio, pipewire is automatically installed. Why?

I don't want anything but alsa.

tonino
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Joined: 03/13/2026

toto@trisquel12:~$ aptitude why pulseaudio
i ayatana-indicator-sound Depends pipewire-pulse | pulseaudio