Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

[Alex Schuster]

Harry Putnam writes:

> Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but
> at some point hal disappeared.  And is not on my system anymore.

Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags?
It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for 
x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of 
my packages that need HAL:

wonko@weird ~ $ equery d hal
[ Searching for packages depending on hal... ]
app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r6 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
app-emulation/wine-1.1.12 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
app-misc/hal-cups-utils-0.6.19 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
app-misc/hal-info-20090414 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.26.3 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7)
gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.8.1)
gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.24.1 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7)
gnome-base/gvfs-1.2.3 (cdda? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
                      (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.24.0 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7)
kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.10-r1 (hal? =sys-apps/hal-0.5*)
kde-base/solid-4.3.2 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.9)
media-gfx/gimp-2.6.4 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.6 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5)
media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.6-r1 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5)
sys-fs/ntfs3g-2009.3.8 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
xfce-base/exo-0.3.105-r1 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
xfce-base/thunar-1.0.1 (hal? sys-apps/hal)


> I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X.
> What I'm wondering from seeing this kind of topic frequently here is
> if I'm running in some deprecated mode?
>
> If my setup using no hal, and xorg.conf is going to become outdated
> and stop working anytime soon?

I don't think so. HAL will be replaced anyway by devicekit. You should be 
safe to keep your xorg.conf, as many people here seem to do.

	Wonko