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

[Allan Gottlieb]

Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> writes:

> Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> writes:
>
>> On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>> My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I
>>
>> It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here)
>
> Bingo.  There was a mesa problem a while ago (7.8.2) that caused me to
> mask =media-libs/mesa-7.8.2.  This caused me to mask xorg-server above
> the current running one.  I didn't notice that mesa did advance and I am
> running 7.9-r1.  So I just now unmasked both mesa and xorg-server and
> update world updated xorg-server and xinit.
>
> Let's see if this now permits me to let depclean remove hal.

It all works fine.  Depclean removed hal and friends and a reboot still
has X and xdm (i.e., gdm).

thanks again.
allan