[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Just after posting this, I realized that KDE 4.4 uses policykit, but 4.5 
uses the new polkit.  I guess that's why I never needed to mess with any 
configuration files.


On 07/29/2010 03:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 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
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