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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE="hal" masked in base/use.mask and related
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:06:10
Message-Id: 4D8FB491.9050705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE="hal" masked in base/use.mask and related by Mike Frysinger
1 On 03/28/2011 12:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote:
3 >> Le 27/03/2011 10:36, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
4 >>> Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
5 >>> prevent overlapping features.
6 >>
7 >> I know you want to kill HAL with a vengeance. I don't disagree with the
8 >> ultimate goal but I think you've gone too far.
9 >>
10 >> HAL and u{power,disks} are _perfectly_ parallel installable and there
11 >> are absolutely _no_ conflicts between the two.
12 >>
13 >> Blockers should be used for _file_ conflicts, not for _feature_
14 >> conflicts, otherwise we'd have to mask and get rid of half (or even
15 >> more) of all the packages we provide in portage.
16 >
17 > latest pciutils blocks hal, so i think that should cover the "urge
18 > people to migrate" aspect in ~arch
19 > -mike
20 >
21
22 I've changed this to be a bit more friendly.
23 As you pointed out, pciutils is one.
24 And ~arch version of upower is second.
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28 KDE really needs to step up and get KDE 4.6.x stabilization bug open,
29 and this non-issue would become moot ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE="hal" masked in base/use.mask and related "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>