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Harry Putnam writes: |
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> Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but |
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> at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. |
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Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? |
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It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for |
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x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of |
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my packages that need HAL: |
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wonko@weird ~ $ equery d hal |
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[ Searching for packages depending on hal... ] |
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app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r6 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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app-emulation/wine-1.1.12 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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app-misc/hal-cups-utils-0.6.19 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) |
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app-misc/hal-info-20090414 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) |
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gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.26.3 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7) |
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gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.8.1) |
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gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.24.1 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7) |
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gnome-base/gvfs-1.2.3 (cdda? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) |
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(hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) |
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gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.24.0 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7) |
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kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.10-r1 (hal? =sys-apps/hal-0.5*) |
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kde-base/solid-4.3.2 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.9) |
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media-gfx/gimp-2.6.4 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.6 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5) |
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media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.6-r1 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5) |
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sys-fs/ntfs3g-2009.3.8 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) |
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x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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xfce-base/exo-0.3.105-r1 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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xfce-base/thunar-1.0.1 (hal? sys-apps/hal) |
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> I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X. |
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> What I'm wondering from seeing this kind of topic frequently here is |
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> if I'm running in some deprecated mode? |
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> If my setup using no hal, and xorg.conf is going to become outdated |
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> and stop working anytime soon? |
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I don't think so. HAL will be replaced anyway by devicekit. You should be |
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safe to keep your xorg.conf, as many people here seem to do. |
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Wonko |