--- a/media-plugins/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.1.8-r1.ebuild	
+++ a/media-plugins/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.1.8-r1.ebuild	
@@ -81,11 +81,9 @@ multilib_src_install_all() {
 		doins "${FILESDIR}"/pulse-default.conf
 		insinto /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
 		doins "${FILESDIR}"/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf
-		# bug #410261, comment 5+
-		# seems to work fine without any path
-		sed -i \
-			-e "s:/usr/lib/alsa-lib/::" \
-			"${ED%/}"/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf || die #410261
+		dosym {/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d,/etc/alsa/conf.d}/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf
+		# This example is similar to our pulse-default.conf
+		rm -f "${ED%/}"/etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example || die
 	fi
 
 	find "${ED}" \( -name '*.a' -o -name '*.la' \) -delete || die
--- a/media-plugins/alsa-plugins/files/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf	
+++ a/media-plugins/alsa-plugins/files/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf	
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ 
 # default output for applications using alsa when pulseaudio is running.
 
 hook_func.pulse_load_if_running {
-	lib "/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so"
+	lib "libasound_module_conf_pulse.so"
 	func "conf_pulse_hook_load_if_running"
 }