[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Btw, I think now the package is "polkit", not "policykit"; I think the 
first replaced the second.  If you enable the "policykit" USE flag for 
kdelibs and consolekit, only sys-auth/polkit gets installed, not 
sys-auth/policykit.  However, if you enable that USE flag globally in 
make.conf, then I think both get installed because some package probably 
depend on the older package.

Anyway, I don't have a "policykit.conf".  Or if I have one, I don't know 
where it is and I never edited it.  And yet everything seems to be 
working just fine here.


On 07/29/2010 03:31 AM, Andrey Vul wrote:
> 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