From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PBOVd-0004V2-8D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:10:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4ED4E0BD1; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBF1E0BCA for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0LAZ004ITTI0OOG0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:10:48 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,250,1286143200"; d="scan'208";a="78815247" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:10:48 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o9S9AlDh017978 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:10:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40FF2A1 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:10:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:10:47 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tracing use flags - how to? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1288250339.28599.0@numa-i> <201010281022.43215.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-reply-to: <201010281022.43215.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.8 Message-id: <1288257047.3531.1@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 20784af0-6eea-4662-aca8-adaf7d3eff0c X-Archives-Hash: 667daaecab72abf9f9d1195d1626da52 On 10/28/10 10:22:42, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 09:18 on Thursday 28 October 2010, > Helmut > Jarausch did opine thusly: > > > Hi, > > > > this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it. > > > > In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove > > the 'hal' use flag. > > I have removed it in /etc/make.conf and added 'udev' instead. > > That will remove it globally from the entire system, which might not > be what > you want. IIRC k3b needs hal for instance to work correctly. Thanks, I've added it again. > > > The xorg-server definitely doesn't have this use flag set in > > /etc/portage/package.use > > > > Still, emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-server shows that it is going to > use > > the 'hal' but not the 'udev' flag. > > > > How to find out where this comes from. > > I usually read the ebuilds and grep directly through files to find > this kind > of stuff :-) I find it easier than remembering commands. > > The xorg-server ebuild says: > IUSE_SERVERS="dmx kdrive xorg" > IUSE="${IUSE_SERVERS} doc hal ipv6 minimal nptl tslib +udev" > > So it uses all those flags, and "udev" is on by default unless you > explicitly > say otherwise somewhere. > > > > I haven't found anything in 'use.mask' in my profile > > default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop > > Post the USE section from emerge --info, the output from > emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-server. Unfortunately, that's too late now. Meanwhile I have add x11-base/xorg-server -hal to /etc/portage/package.use > the output from > grep -r udev /etc/portage/* > grep -r hal /etc/portage/* That didn't show any hal entries. > > and let's take it from there. > > Finding stuff in profiles is tricky, you have to search upwards > through the > directories, not downwards. Many thanks, Alan. Meanwhile, upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 went smoothly and I've removed /etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi where I had some settings for the keyboard and the mouse. Helmut.