Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

[Allan Gottlieb]

Vincent-Xavier JUMEL <endymion+gentoo@×××××××××××.net> writes:

> Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit
>> Something seems wrong.
>> Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run.
>> Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to
>> remove it.
>>
> Have you look on how X.org packages are built on your computer. You
> should build it with udev support.

I think it is enabled for xorg-server

gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ eix xorg-server
[I] x11-base/xorg-server
     Available versions:  1.7.6 1.7.7-r1 [m](~)1.8.2 [m](~)1.9.2 [m](~)1.9.2.902 {debug dmx doc hal ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl static-libs tslib +udev xorg}
     Installed versions:  1.7.7-r1(09:59:41 AM 12/19/2010)(ipv6 kdrive nptl sdl xorg -debug -dmx -hal -minimal -tslib)
     Homepage:            http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         X.Org X servers

To be sure I temporarily added it to make.conf but an emerge update
world did not want to merge any packages

>> I can easily add hal to world, but should xdm depend on it?

I still wonder why xdm, which claims to need hal doesn't depend on it
and why suddenly depclean wants to remove it.

allan