Comment 30 for bug 400820

No we shouldn't. g-v-c-applet is a pulseaudio client and should be able to autospawn the daemon on demand, like it does currently. Rather than adding in workarounds for users who choose to go through the bother of uninstalling Pulseaudio, why don't you just remove the applet from System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications so the applet doesn't run at all?