"They think that they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB
hotplugging/automounting working",in Xorg 1.8, udev will replace HAL  . we
can use devicekit-disks package to mount USB stick or CD,USE polkit-gnome or
ntfs3g  to mount NTFS filesystem. so HAL is not needed.may be modify
gnome-mount ebuild ,remove HAL depedency and put it in local OVERLAY .maybe
slove the problem.

On 29 July 2010 02:50, 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.
>
>
>