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On Wednesday 28 July 2010 23:08:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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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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> >>> 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 |
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> >> that they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB |
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> >> hotplugging/automounting working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL |
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> >> for this, not X. And if you disable HAL completely, that stuff will |
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> >> 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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Something tells me the kde.org admins didn't *really* intend to show me all |
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this info: |
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Software error: |
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DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Unknown table engine 'InnoDB' [for |
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Statement "SELECT bug_id FROM bugs WHERE bug_id = ?"] at Bugzilla/Bug.pm line |
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3366 |
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Bugzilla::Bug::ValidateBugID(244444) called at |
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/home/bugzilla/public_html/show_bug.cgi line 62 |
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For help, please send mail to the webmaster (sysadmin@×××.org), giving this |
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error message and the time and date of the error. |
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tut, tut, kde.org. Big fail. Need to learn how to trap errors properly. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |