From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUcLw-0003hY-1k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:39:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A9A5E0431; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B41E0431 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KEJ006D16LFBG50@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:39:15 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,377,1231110000"; d="scan'208";a="335920" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:39:14 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n147dFhj029424 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:39:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 322A0106826; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:39:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:39:15 +0100 (CET) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: X-Archives-Salt: ba5f52ec-d84b-46cf-aa29-7118c87a6bf4 X-Archives-Hash: 5705cf4deab0b879c1f865ff696b84c3 Hi, having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) Many thanks for your sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany