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 1N5oOQ-0006Q6-Op for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:31:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C029E0AD9; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076D7E0AD9 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:31:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so6742825ywh.32 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:31:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ii9ixLRaf13RYOhN/jw0AfelVdZt8sKD6MQ13dqnv98=; b=IV0rw673BEDwSctTIaqOahbLTo7TofKheYvkrPVpzBaStLkuuZvDzQwh3sZLHQlW4y 5gUjQFFfkiP7eNMY3J6qYSYk99kVtGC30IaVSWm2EIJPU6FX63/JWW3/guw5IJAgg6Cl C4ISxhBQhrS0PFLJ1KsBsbQOXCmTVQX2sw5dc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jxAARgyff1uWYyhR68o3nZHISLwsYjGAgiGFDskhpnk1X6Uvt2Bbz/TXkb4fFvNVHD Uz0rajvGePdnXuHi3mNNmSEoN2Lhyeij/SxpiVwV6CpFdt//8wfP0OlRp1ajGb8/ktb/ nrUZgk5hh6yT7H5OW7Tb3wBY88xCSomCvX8b4= Received: by 10.150.174.33 with SMTP id w33mr3848280ybe.2.1257373912607; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:31:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-115-242.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.115.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm31950gxk.6.2009.11.04.14.31.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:31:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF200D5.3090608@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:31:49 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another angle on hal/xorg thread References: <87ws26s2z2.fsf@newsguy.com> <200911041724.04669.wonko@wonkology.org> <87ocnirx2t.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87ocnirx2t.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 357774ba-fdd5-4085-bbd8-956813a38f38 X-Archives-Hash: 9a9178a555e8ee0870698e60519fa044 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alex Schuster writes: > > >> Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? >> It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for >> x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of >> my packages that need HAL: >> > > I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal was not in my useflags (by my > hand) until this last upgrade (two days ago). > > In the course of events I saw hal pop up in the output of > emerge -vuDp world. I'd already noticed hal was not on my system for > a while now... so quickly added `-hal' to /etc/make.conf. > > So from here on, its no mystery why I don't have hal. But before the > last upgrade, I don't recall having done anything explicit about hal > to remove it. And had gone through several upgrades without hal > popping up. > > It may be the profile you are using. It may not have hal enabled for some reason therefore nothing was pulling it in. Me, if everything is working fine, I would leave hal out. I have seriously considered adding -hal to make.conf and seeing what happens. It just sort of tastes bad after all the hal problems I have had. Dale :-) :-)