On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:51:19AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> > And (its only my private opinion - could base on wrong facts :P) dont be
> > used to hal because the 1.8 xorg-server dont like it any more,
> > preferring udev, and future versions wouldn't probably support hal at
> > all.
> >
> > Lately i delete hal USE and now iam using udev - excepting auto mounting
> > usb stick etc.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal?
> 
> - Grant
> 

I'm using x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0 from the x11 overlay and it doesn't
even have a 'hal' use flag to enable. Furthermore, there is a webpage on
x.org about this: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL

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Éric Valérian DUNAND