[gentoo-user] rc-update add hald default or boot?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I've wondered for a while whether the design intention of hald was
to be run at boot time or as a default level process? Googling for
'rc-update add hald default' turns up more responses than it does for
boot, but they are both out there. Seems like if you wanted to
recognize hardware it would be good to do it at boot time, but maybe
it just doesn't work...

   This Gentoo page says default, which is the way I'm using it:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HAL

but I've seen a few emails from some very knowledgeable folks who have
said boot when answering questions on these lists. Possibly they just
made a mistake or were making assumptions. Don't know.

   It's not even mentioned in the X86 handbook:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1

   So, for clarity and correctness, which way is the intended way to use it?

   Asking because of problems created with the new xorg-x11 update.

Thanks,
Mark