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 <gentoo-user+bounces-116045-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1PBVml-0003OX-Eu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:57:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A509E088B; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2i.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044F5E088B for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-18.62.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.62.18] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <purslow@ca.inter.net>) id 1PBVmJ-0000i3-HF for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:56:40 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:56:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:56:38 -0400 From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal Message-ID: <20101028165638.GB4337@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <8739rribwc.fsf@newsguy.com> <20101028012351.GC4302@ca.inter.net> <87mxpzf1cb.fsf@newsguy.com> <201010281026.20648.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201010281026.20648.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: be688a96-a4ad-4769-815b-f73a30f88910 X-Archives-Hash: 3161372e4c843994de9f83e99db36316 101028 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Harry Putnam did opine thusly: >> Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> writes: >>> From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : >>> 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? Yes, it's my own note to myself & reads wrongly for anyone else. My 'make.conf' has USE="-* ... gtk2 handbook ... " (ordered alphabetically) which means it does have "-hal", ie it drops 'hal'. > I wouldn't advise putting -hal in make.conf - that's globally > and too many other things on the desktop still need it. Not on my machines. I have used the "-* ... " approach for some years. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca