Just upgraded my systems to 14.04 and pulseaudio was installed again. Here's what was in apt.log.
Installing pulseaudio as Recommends of unity-settings-daemon Installing unity-settings-daemon as Depends of unity-control-center Installing unity-control-center as Recommends of gnome-bluetooth -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184643 Title: Upgrade to 13.04 installs pulseaudio To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/1184643/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs