As Chris implied, the preferred method in Hardy is to install the
pulseaudio-esound-compat binary package, which avoids the invocation of
a system-wide daemon. A user will need to have the "Enable software
sound mixing" checkbox enabled in GNOME's System> Preferences> Sound
menu.
The alsa-lib pulse plugin is useful, but I don't foresee (myself)
mangling a user's asoundrc in a postinst script. At the very least, the
updated libflashsupport source needs to be imported into LP and fixed up
(see bug 94233).
Moreover, a reboot is necessary[0] between Hardy's 0.9.7-3ubuntu1 and
0.9.7-3ubuntu2. I mistakenly enabled a patch that caused a regression
for the esd socket; Martin has fixed that mistake, and updated packages
are available in Hardy proper.
Finally, yes, you should remove the explicit pulseaudio invocation from
your user's gnome session.
[0] Strictly speaking, a user can avoid rebooting simply by logging out
of GNOME, killing the pulseaudio daemon(s), forcibly removing
/tmp/.esd*, and logging back into GNOME.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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Pulseaudio install options need help
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164226
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