Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:03:37
Message-Id: 20100209102732.188d2125@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? by Walter Dnes
1 On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
2
3 > My solution to simplify Gentoo...
4 >
5 > waltdnes@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask
6 > sys-libs/pam
7 > sys-apps/dbus
8 > sys-apps/hal
9
10 That's as much crippling as simplifying. You can do without pam and hal
11 by setting appropriate USE flags (I run pam-free here by
12 doing just that) but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to
13 communicate with one another and removing it can stop your desktop
14 working as it should.
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18 Neil Bothwick
19
20 WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

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Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Zeerak Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>