I would like to purge both pulseaudio *and* pipewire from daedalus.

It seems as if some package is requiring it, but I thought apluse is enough.

... OK purging one at a time doesn't work, but:
apt-get purge pipewire* pulseaudio*

Seems to work.

I could also remove some of the libs individually also, but some others
seem to remove all of X11. Whatever, at least the shoddy daemons are not
running.

Cheers,

Simon

dpkg --get-selections | grep -E "(pulse|pipewire)"
apulse:amd64                                    install
libkf5pulseaudioqt3:amd64                       install
libkpipewire5                                   install
libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64                         install
libpipewire-0.3-common                          install
libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64                   install
libpulse0:amd64                                 install