Re: [gentoo-user] any advantage to dbus or hal on minimal system

[Florian Philipp]

Harry Putnam schrieb:
> On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
> installed?
>
> I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
> log server.
>
> Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
> removed?
>
>

My server (ssh, apache, tomcat, syslog-ng, djbdns, openvpn) doesn't need it.

hal might come in handy if you want to use hardware switches like the
power button but acpid might be enough for this.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp