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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:05:46
Message-Id: 201012201604.20118.joost@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Monday 20 December 2010 15:55:40 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > Vincent-Xavier JUMEL <endymion+gentoo@×××××××××××.net> writes:
3 > > Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit
4 > >
5 > >> Something seems wrong.
6 > >> Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run.
7 > >> Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to
8 > >> remove it.
9 > >
10 > > Have you look on how X.org packages are built on your computer. You
11 > > should build it with udev support.
12 >
13 > I think it is enabled for xorg-server
14 >
15 > gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ eix xorg-server
16 > [I] x11-base/xorg-server
17 > Available versions: 1.7.6 1.7.7-r1 [m](~)1.8.2 [m](~)1.9.2
18 > [m](~)1.9.2.902 {debug dmx doc hal ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl
19 > static-libs tslib +udev xorg} Installed versions: 1.7.7-r1(09:59:41 AM
20 > 12/19/2010)(ipv6 kdrive nptl sdl xorg -debug -dmx -hal -minimal -tslib)
21 > Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
22 > Description: X.Org X servers
23
24 **
25 Installed versions: 1.7.7-r1(09:59:41 AM 12/19/2010)(ipv6 kdrive nptl sdl
26 xorg -debug -dmx -hal -minimal -tslib)
27 **
28
29 It's installed with "hal" disabled.
30
31 > To be sure I temporarily added it to make.conf but an emerge update
32 > world did not want to merge any packages
33
34 Add "--newuse" to the flags and it should pick it up:
35 emerge -vauD --newuse world
36
37 > >> I can easily add hal to world, but should xdm depend on it?
38 >
39 > I still wonder why xdm, which claims to need hal doesn't depend on it
40 > and why suddenly depclean wants to remove it.
41
42 See above, "hal" isn't added to the installed xorg-server use-flags
43
44 --
45 Joost

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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>