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 1PJNoB-0007y9-Hz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:03:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D367FE07D3; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7256E07D3 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyc15 with SMTP id 15so976791gyc.40 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:02:55 -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=mJU6gi2hU0estC/mz/nD5ZW5b90y6eduATc1UN6YAvk=; b=TTPTmWXMO712getI5fPpBXWHssTR1fMDrRsjryVyX7H0BazPy5eXd9QQZ8jd4wh4La 59X7izdrxy/KYc94A8DI505it78NakrLHtR2ILpY3Ex6HJ4ZA7nGtXdulGn1A5yR60QD N4xw1YnYwbdK38CiBfpSekJYJpIpGUL7yFIiw= 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=InzciWK1WGCfHLfhV5g27SeCn8bjlN3gb9vg/dLus/DIZofwfDqbP9s5+ZhCIFeJQ8 nAHIREOSbTcfp+rJ/tXQTIOO0/BMb+kJf/x7E2nRT4bkNS7KvLaFyVAOMUOUWg5Ne0w3 pp4hod7ZqDkTSccHPW2sAmlSTFUM2Stn14OTk= Received: by 10.100.96.5 with SMTP id t5mr1340227anb.258.1290160975375; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:02:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-93-231.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c39sm1621110anc.21.2010.11.19.02.02.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:02:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CE64B4C.1040806@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:02:52 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 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: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? References: <201011170200.49241.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20101118004329.GB23732@waltdnes.org> <201011180259.33235.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20101119031413.GC32524@waltdnes.org> <20101119091459.3310b701@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101119091459.3310b701@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: af36d8a6-c0fd-4d77-aaaa-aca0a690def3 X-Archives-Hash: a21f9a1e382762537aadf4e8b873b1c2 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:14:13 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > >> This is not about ipv6 or hal or dbus in particular. My approach is >> to only have the bare minimum necessary flags, and not allow *ANY NEW >> AND UNNECESSARY OPTIONAL* flags. Any additional extra "stuff" involves >> additional bloat and complexity, and a chance of breakage. If Dale had >> had "-*", a *NEW OPTIONAL* use flag (e.g. hal) would not have been >> implemented for X. >> > Except that Dale almost certainly would have had hal in USE because KDE > needed it, so he would still have been bitten when HAL support was added > to XOrg. > > Yep, I added it globally, like was recommended anyway, and it worked for everything except xorg. After getting to a console so I could emerge something, I disabled it for xorg but left it enabled for everything else, including KDE. Actually, hal works OK for everything else. Sometimes k3b will have a hick up or puke out a error about it but usually a recompile of k3b fixes that. Well, I had to reemerge cdrtools once but anyway. Those things happen. ;-) Dale :-) :-)