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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> USE="hal" is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid |
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> and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization. |
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> This is preparation for dropping the uncompressed usb.ids file from |
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> sys-apps/usbutils, which HAL relies on. |
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> Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to |
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> prevent overlapping features. |
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> -Samuli |
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Good evening, |
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Why didn't you use the news utility to inform users about this change |
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and possible transition steps/migration guide? This is a rather big |
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change that might (or may not) require a bit of effort from non-power |
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users to migrate their systems to the new backend. A short summary of |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html |
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would be nice but I guess it is too late for that since another |
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major change occurred without advertising it properly to our users. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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