Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE="hal" masked in base/use.mask and related

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 23:36 +0100, Markos Chandras a écrit :
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > USE="hal" is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid
> > and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization.
> >
> > This is preparation for dropping the uncompressed usb.ids file from
> > sys-apps/usbutils, which HAL relies on.
> >
> > Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to
> > prevent overlapping features.
> >
> > -Samuli
> >
>
> Good evening,
>
> Why didn't you use the news utility to inform users about this change
> and possible transition steps/migration guide? This is a rather big
> change that might (or may not) require a bit of effort from non-power
> users to migrate their systems to the new backend. A short summary of
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html
> would be nice but I guess it is too late for that since another
> major change occurred without advertising it properly to our users.
>
> Regards,

I wouldn't say it's too late for cases like this. A documentation about
reasons and ways to remove hal support and still get a nice desktop
experience is always re-assuring to users. Even if it comes one or two
weeks too late.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Gentoo