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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:51:45 +0100
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On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Graham Murray wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> writes:
> > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
> > or mail app that they are offline?
> 
> Why does the app need to know? 

others already posted examples why this is needed.

Also - why should I manually select something, when the system can do it for 
me?

Do you install your files by hand or do you let portage do the job?