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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@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 21:34:38
Message-Id: AANLkTi=8QgjcbJsoYV=iL=zxvJO-GL-5mULNghyv8OFq@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE="hal" masked in base/use.mask and related by "Rémi Cardona"
1 On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote:
2 > Le 27/03/2011 10:36, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
3 >> Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
4 >> prevent overlapping features.
5 >
6 > I know you want to kill HAL with a vengeance. I don't disagree with the
7 > ultimate goal but I think you've gone too far.
8 >
9 > HAL and u{power,disks} are _perfectly_ parallel installable and there
10 > are absolutely _no_ conflicts between the two.
11 >
12 > Blockers should be used for _file_ conflicts, not for _feature_
13 > conflicts, otherwise we'd have to mask and get rid of half (or even
14 > more) of all the packages we provide in portage.
15
16 latest pciutils blocks hal, so i think that should cover the "urge
17 people to migrate" aspect in ~arch
18 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE="hal" masked in base/use.mask and related Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>