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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:50:11 +0300
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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.