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Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 23:36 +0100, Markos Chandras a écrit : |
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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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> > |
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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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I wouldn't say it's too late for cases like this. A documentation about |
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reasons and ways to remove hal support and still get a nice desktop |
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experience is always re-assuring to users. Even if it comes one or two |
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weeks too late. |
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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> |
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Gentoo |