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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:48:15 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hal vs. devicekit
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Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not)
>> which is why
>> he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit.
>
> Speaking of which...
>
> Has the switchover to devicekit officially started and I missed it? 
> And if so, is there some migration guide of some sort I can peruse for
> assistance?
>
> I just upgraded Xorg and Gnome yesterday and my previously
> more-or-less-working with hal system went belly up.  It no longer
> recognizes my synaptics touchpad, and in fact refused to start X until
> I re-merged the kdb/mouse drivers, and gnome-power-manager is totally
> useless.
>
> For the record, I'm all about moving to devicekit from hal if that's
> where the dev(s) are moving, but I'd rather do so while continuing to
> use my laptop :)
>
> --Mike
>
>

I noticed devicekit going in the tree the other day.  I think I posted
it on this list.

root@smoker / # eix devicekit
* sys-apps/devicekit
     Available versions:  ~003 {doc}
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit
     Description:         D-Bus abstraction for enumerating devices and
listening for device events using udev

* sys-apps/devicekit-disks
     Available versions:  ~008 {bash-completion debug doc}
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit
     Description:         Daemon providing interfaces to work with
storage devices

* sys-apps/devicekit-power
     Available versions:  ~009 ~011 {debug doc test}
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit
     Description:         D-Bus abstraction for enumerating power
devices and querying history and statistics

Found 3 matches.
root@smoker / #

I'm not sure when it FIRST hit the tree but at least it is there.  I
hope the config stuff is easier.  Of course, if it just works, that
would be nice. 

Dale

:-)  :-)