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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:24:26
Message-Id: 4C266FDB.6050807@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag by Albert Hopkins
1 Am 26.06.2010 22:56, schrieb Albert Hopkins:
2 > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
3 >> Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal?
4 >
5 > I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the
6 > way I use them they still need hal. I don't have hal as a global use
7 > flag, but have it for individual packages in /etc/portage/package.use.
8 > This is entirely user preference (I can't tell you if you need hal or
9 > not).
10
11 Sure ...
12
13 I have to add that I am using GNOME here which might lead to some
14 thoughts about hotplugging stuff like usb-sticks etc.
15
16 What else?
17
18 # equery h hal
19 * Searching for USE flag hal ...
20 [IP-] [ ] app-emulation/wine-1.1.42:0
21 [IP-] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.30.0:2
22 [IP-] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.24.3-r1:2
23 [IP-] [ ] gnome-base/gvfs-1.6.2:0
24 [IP-] [ ] media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.21.2-r1:0
25 [IP-] [ ] media-sound/qmmp-0.4.1:0
26 [IP-] [ ] sys-fs/ntfs3g-2010.5.16:0
27 [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1.901:0
28
29 pulseaudio, works ok so far.
30 qmmp, OK.
31 xorg-server, yep, for quite a while.
32
33 Can't really say much about the gnome-stuff and wine ...
34
35 For now hald is OFF here and packages recompiled with "-hal".
36
37 Stefan