Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

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

On Wednesday 28 July 2010 23:08:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
> >> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place?  It's not gonna
> >>>> eat your cat.
> >>> 
> >>> Although it may kill your crew.
> >> 
> >> I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for.  They think
> >> that they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB
> >> hotplugging/automounting working.  But that's wrong.  Gnome/KDE use HAL
> >> for this, not X.  And if you disable HAL completely, that stuff will
> >> stop working.
> > 
> > E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id.
> > 
> > I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble.
> > But I kept HAL because it's very useful.
> 
> If you're on KDE, you will need policykit again in the future, since
> with KDE 4.5 (to be released in a matter of days) it's not really
> optional anymore.  I got hit by this when updating to it (now at RC3):
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444

Something tells me the kde.org admins didn't *really* intend to show me all 
this info:

Software error:

DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Unknown table engine 'InnoDB' [for 
Statement "SELECT bug_id FROM bugs WHERE bug_id = ?"] at Bugzilla/Bug.pm line 
3366
	Bugzilla::Bug::ValidateBugID(244444) called at 
/home/bugzilla/public_html/show_bug.cgi line 62

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (sysadmin@kde.org), giving this 
error message and the time and date of the error. 

tut, tut, kde.org. Big fail. Need to learn how to trap errors properly.


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