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On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:39:15 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is |
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> what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' |
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> use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) |
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> Many thanks for your sharing your experience, |
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> Helmut. |
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There's no benefit as such. hal is a crock of shit that never worked right as |
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the designer intended, and he said so publicly on his blog. He has a plan to |
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replace it with something else that might work. It's similar to devfs which |
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led to udev to replace it. |
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Meanwhile, trying to run KDE or Gnome on a box without hal is becoming more |
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and more painful with each update. Even xorg is getting in on the hal game |
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and using hal to auto-configure input devices. |
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Unless you know of a compelling need to remove it, chances are your life will |
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be some much easier if you just add hal to USE and be done with it. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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