From: Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:54:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimDYMVcZ2z2ookQfofp3SmuitMKHQgoR9NE466z@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i2pu4s$rdt$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 2:44 [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL sam new
2010-07-28 5:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-28 13:34 ` sam new
2010-07-28 15:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-29 2:26 ` sam new
2010-07-29 6:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-29 8:07 ` sam new
2010-07-28 16:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-07-28 8:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-17 19:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-08-18 13:22 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-08-19 3:05 ` [gentoo-user] autodepclean script (was "how to remove HAL") Walter Dnes
2010-08-21 10:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2010-08-21 23:32 ` Walter Dnes
2010-08-22 9:45 ` Francesco Talamona
2010-08-19 9:57 ` [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL Neil Bothwick
2010-07-28 16:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-07-28 17:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-28 18:50 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-07-28 20:54 ` Andrey Vul [this message]
2010-07-28 21:08 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-07-28 21:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-29 0:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 0:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-07-29 0:44 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-07-29 0:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 2:24 ` [gentoo-user] " sam new
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