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 1Pktjt-0006Di-Ci for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:36:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03F88E0AC5; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2i.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA4BE0AC5 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:34:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=uniserve.com; s=2010; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=pYjXQiI7g2OkWH0Njp+mwoeB0nuh7llQl6BptDPUL+E=; b=G1cWghTtM9pNsio6KfKihXtd0hnw95qxNQKqFvhGXQwNqVgger1WuS/Qzc973RywCmML9i95P+P0TWQfJd+OTVu/XC6amUFWqz5vdtgRnjP4RRjZIGKqQLkn0Ih0z8Aq; Received: from ip-167.62.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.62.167] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PktiN-0002Ay-7g for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:34:52 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:34:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 02:34:50 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL Message-ID: <20110203073450.GB3799@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: X-Archives-Hash: 04f3fbd1d8de098dab972160e7c2a89f 110202 Brian Waters wrote: > I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu > -- I heard it "just works" and that is a Good Thing -- > only to find that I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. When I set up my little EEE netbook 2009 , I considered alternatives, but quickly decided that Gentoo really does just work & is a good thing, ie once you've put in the time to install it properly. > I'd like to know if HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I eliminated it successfully a long time ago: it seems to be needed by the KDE desktop, but not by the KDE apps I use. I don't like the KDE 4 desktop, so use Fluxbox, which I strongly recommend as something else which just works once you've set it up to taste. BTW there are reports of problems with Xfce 4.8 . -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca