Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

[Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com>]

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 <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
>

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