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 1OeH2h-0003al-Pr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:32:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 744A1E0924; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:31:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F02E0924 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:31:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so747957wwb.10 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:31:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=conlGw9eDQO6pu6lbfdfIxFFO02vWrGp00mC9cu5s7k=; b=FgmDlW57IwYenmezZjTi5XhwWdG5dbcBsanf1kjSEvAMNydwK0q+dSznYvFkvVHgmv ni+0SlIYMhzR+obfRE4aLtp85I6jfmXpel1MhH+BIbHRgAZcYjcU+QoH76yceeWR4VDs 8txjb22w7ccmALqtZ+IzTsD/K8bfPcSFDyfFM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=Mzg02rwp9WxYbI2PX0sIe1zltbeDZETB0Mw/AEowKUvXtey80gNz3bHV6z61h1Xk+s 5TVG6UvMWkflL+J00KdSg5+fX0bXGmUzM4YM723eiybPLCboG5NCTWHSSlwDK4Q0sdWX 3cCNej5mZxmtsv2M2ZOLts4EerDrcDLDWWLGY= 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 Received: by 10.216.178.199 with SMTP id f49mr11408848wem.110.1280363502550; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.233.97 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:31:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100728182346.751a4d8a@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:31:42 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL From: Andrey Vul To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c5f92126-6762-4ce2-be7a-c94f98ee798d X-Archives-Hash: 61fe2e9756899d69d6dca1eaa765d84d Ugh. Now i'll actually have to config policykit.conf. For some reason, match group=wheel return yes fails so much. Somehow the mount-ro defaults to no every time On 2010-07-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>> >>>>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna >>>>> eat your cat. >>>> >>>> Although it may kill your crew. >>> >>> I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think >>> that >>> they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB >>> hotplugging/automounting >>> working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X. And if >>> you >>> disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working. >>> >>> >> >> E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id. >> >> I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble. >> But I kept HAL because it's very useful. > > If you're on KDE, you will need policykit again in the future, since > with KDE 4.5 (to be released in a matter of days) it's not really > optional anymore. I got hit by this when updating to it (now at RC3): > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444 > > > -- Sent from my mobile device Andrey Vul begin-base64 600 sig bXNuLCBob21lOiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ0KdSBvZiB0OiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQHV0b3Jv bnRvLmNhDQpzbXMsIHZvaWNlbWFpbDogNDE2MzAzOTkyMw0K ` end