I use emerge -avuNDt world ,find out that is  gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 ,and also check the ebuild that depends hal .but I mask it in the package.mask why still emerge gnome-mount and hal ,maybe gnome-mount depends hal,and others depends gnome-mount ,how can I do?

On 28 July 2010 13:01, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 04:44:23 sam new wrote:
> Hi All,
>        As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other
> devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE="-hal" in
> /etc/make.conf ,and recompile  the packages, and also modify
> /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD="no" ，exec rc-update del hal default .All
> things goes well ,yesterday,I use emerge to update my world ,in the list
> still has a hal package, I don't know why system sitll emerge hal? maybe
> dependence ，but I use 'equery d hal' and  check packages which depend HAL
> ,have no idea ,any Suggestions?


emerge -avuNDt world


to get a tree view of dependencies. That will should just what is causing hal
to be pulled in



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