From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PBNo8-0003tK-0e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:26:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EE03E0985; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D423CE0985 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg5 with SMTP id 5so1039758eyg.40 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:25:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ydyTabShnyoSPBXo8qa1WLnYVA74W2eSHdQRx3meM6I=; b=rRFB87g0i9awQQPOpvdZqfE2HP+Kbdn3+JuqJ06fBxcrrmxQ+lqDWjegulAmEeofdF tWy+Od48jZpUj05LtyV7hA6WTOcGkWbh+Gv7dUyCacQcMTdDQW8rDbFj8psH9hhSoxSZ FBNYt+qPodymleab4jz/Umsxo0rM0t90Zdbok= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mbYfqBa7kUmR2GNdc3QDzXo1W01CDeEn3+Gp2ywKYDLTEd9NltzsMEKVHIv1aao4G1 d91zIVJaPrWga+PG31SXP1IczQw0BpkWqeavzAuVrvtADQZk5MkZ9Zc+1YHa294uFjdm y50Em+wpThaZukVJypeYtHCZXJKIXck8YMV9A= Received: by 10.213.22.203 with SMTP id o11mr9269245ebb.83.1288254347227; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v51sm581927eeh.10.2010.10.28.01.25.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:25:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:26:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <8739rribwc.fsf@newsguy.com> <20101028012351.GC4302@ca.inter.net> <87mxpzf1cb.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87mxpzf1cb.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010281026.20648.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 377dd923-3e65-4850-b124-c482a105ecdd X-Archives-Hash: 74b838582d8ea42359ac95a0f1f61b2c Apparently, though unproven, at 05:22 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Harry Putnam did opine thusly: > Philip Webb writes: > > 101027 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. > > > > From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : > Nice .. many thanks but one question.... > > > To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag ; > > So no kind of hal flag in make.conf, or is `-hal' a typo that > should be `drop 'hal' flag? I wouldn't advise putting -hal in make.conf - that's globally and too many other things on the desktop still need it. Either a) disable it in /etc/make.conf and enable it in packages.use for stuff that needs it b) enable it in make.conf and disable it in packages.use for xorg-server I prefer b) as it's too easy to miss things using a). -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com