Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

[Brian Waters <brianmwaters@gmail.com>]

Thanks Canek, that's perfect because for this upcoming install I'm
planning on using acpid for power management anyway. I don't think
power management is something that should run as a regular logged in
user, and it causes problems like your laptop not sleeping when you're
logged out with the login screen up, which is pretty dumb. Although
I'm not sure you can easily use acpid to "do something after 10
minutes of inactivity," so that will probably take jiggery pokery to
figure out.
Anyway, I digress. Maybe I'll start a thread on that when the time comes.

- BW


On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Waters <brianmwaters@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> So I'm
>> wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages,
>> dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL
>> dependency.
>
> Using GNOME, the only package that depends by default on HAL is
> gnome-power-manager (+hal dependency). Excepting for that one, if you
> remove hal from your use flags nothing will try to pull it. I'm not
> sure with Xfce or KDE.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Instituto de Matemáticas
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>
>