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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> writes: |
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>> Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? |
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>> It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for |
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>> x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of |
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>> my packages that need HAL: |
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> I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal was not in my useflags (by my |
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> hand) until this last upgrade (two days ago). |
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> In the course of events I saw hal pop up in the output of |
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> emerge -vuDp world. I'd already noticed hal was not on my system for |
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> a while now... so quickly added `-hal' to /etc/make.conf. |
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> So from here on, its no mystery why I don't have hal. But before the |
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> last upgrade, I don't recall having done anything explicit about hal |
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> to remove it. And had gone through several upgrades without hal |
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> popping up. |
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It may be the profile you are using. It may not have hal enabled for |
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some reason therefore nothing was pulling it in. |
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Me, if everything is working fine, I would leave hal out. I have |
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seriously considered adding -hal to make.conf and seeing what happens. |
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It just sort of tastes bad after all the hal problems I have had. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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