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Apparently, though unproven, at 01:59 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did |
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opine thusly: |
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> Brian Waters wrote: |
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> > Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu |
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> > (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that |
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> > I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships |
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> > with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box, |
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> > and I'm excited for Xfce 4.8.) |
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> > It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if |
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> > HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at |
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> > all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm |
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> > wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages, |
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> > dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL |
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> > dependency. |
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> > Thanks a lot! |
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> > |
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> > - BW |
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> I use KDE here but with KDE 4.6, hal is gone. I use xorg 1.9 and no hal |
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> there. If nothing in xfce doesn't need it, then I think it is gone. |
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> All this is on amd64. I'm in the process of updating my x86 rig so I |
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> could answer for it in a day or so. Give me a poke if you need a |
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> report. ;-) |
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> Keep in mind, there are still a few packages that you CAN enable hal |
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> on. They are disabled here and still work fine as far as I know. I |
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> haven't burned a CD/DVD yet but k3b does see the drive and all. I would |
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> think it would work. That reminds me, I need to update some backups. o_O |
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Everything left here is optional: |
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$ equery depends hal |
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* These packages depend on hal: |
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app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) |
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app-emulation/wine-1.3.11 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) |
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app-misc/hal-info-20091130 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) |
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dev-libs/e_dbus-1.0.0 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) |
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media-gfx/gimp-2.6.11 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) |
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media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.10 (hal ? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5) |
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media-tv/xbmc-10.0 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |