Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

I can't understand what you have typed.

Please run emerge -avuNDt world and post the entire output here.



On Wednesday 28 July 2010 15:34:23 sam new wrote:
> I use emerge -avuNDt world ,find out that is  gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1
> ,and also check the ebuild that depends hal .but I mask it in the
> package.mask why still emerge gnome-mount and hal ,maybe gnome-mount
> depends hal,and others depends gnome-mount ,how can I do?
> 
> On 28 July 2010 13:01, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 July 2010 04:44:23 sam new wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > >        As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any
> > 
> > other
> > 
> > > devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE="-hal" in
> > > /etc/make.conf ,and recompile  the packages, and also modify
> > > /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD="no" ，exec rc-update del hal default
> > > .All things goes well ,yesterday,I use emerge to update my world ,in
> > > the list still has a hal package, I don't know why system sitll emerge
> > > hal? maybe dependence ，but I use 'equery d hal' and  check packages
> > > which depend HAL ,have no idea ,any Suggestions?
> > 
> > emerge -avuNDt world
> > 
> > 
> > to get a tree view of dependencies. That will should just what is causing
> > hal
> > to be pulled in
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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