Hi!

I've got a couple of sound issues which I suspect might be linked to
Pulseaudio.

I'd like to temporarily disable Pulseaudio and see if I experience those
issues with ALSA alone.

It seems that Pulseaudio is part of the %desktop-services.
However it's not listed in

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
sudo herd status
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

for me.  Any idea why?

Killing the pulseaudio process manually results in it being
automatically started.  I suspect that's expected from shepherd.

Any clue how to kill it for real?

Cheers!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/