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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Avoiding HAL
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:28:57
Message-Id: 4D49F66E.7000509@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Avoiding HAL by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 02/03/2011 12:59 AM, Brian Waters wrote:
3 >> [...]
4 >> It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if
5 >> HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at
6 >> all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm
7 >> wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages,
8 >> dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL
9 >> dependency.
10 >
11 > To see that, put "-hal" in your make.conf, and check your package.use
12 > too to make sure there's no "hal" enabling in there. Then unmerge the
13 > hal package and do an "emerge -aDNt --with-bdeps=y world". If
14 > something pulls hal back in, it's gonna show due to the "t" option of
15 > emerge.
16 >
17 > Hope that helps.
18 >
19 >
20 >
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23 The way i read his post, which may not be read correctly, he doesn't
24 have a Gentoo install at the moment to run those commands. ;-)
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)