[Discuss] pulse files in /tmp on RHEL 6

[Richard Pieri]

On 3/11/2015 2:49 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I have removed all pulseadio packages except pulseaudio-gdm-hooks.x86_64
> 0:0.9.21-17.el6 that is needed for gdm, but the directories are still
> being created.

Those are used for PulseAudio sockets. The idea behind not cleaning up 
is so that when a user logs in again he can re-use his existing 
directory. The pile of turds in /tmp means that the PulseAudio support 
is working as designed according to the PulseAudio devs:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2012-April/013415.html

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Rich P.