Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

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

On Thursday 29 July 2010 04:26:09 sam new wrote:
> I use emerge -avuNDt world ,just find out that is
> gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 is depend HAL

Yes, hal is required for gnome-mount-0.8-r1, it is not optional

You must either have hal or not have gnome-mount

But what's the problem? hal can be installed, you don't have to USE it.


> 
> On 28 July 2010 23:08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > --
> > 
> >  alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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