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On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna |
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>>>> eat your cat. |
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>>> |
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>>> Although it may kill your crew. |
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>> I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think that |
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>> they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automounting |
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>> working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X. And if you |
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>> disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working. |
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> E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id. |
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> I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble. |
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> But I kept HAL because it's very useful. |
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If you're on KDE, you will need policykit again in the future, since |
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with KDE 4.5 (to be released in a matter of days) it's not really |
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optional anymore. I got hit by this when updating to it (now at RC3): |
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444 |
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