On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage.
> > but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch
> > system is listed as an orphan.
> >
> > coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of the HAL layer
> > as fairly fundamental, but i guess i've stripped this server down
> > far enough that even the HAL library isn't being used anymore.
>
> Possibly libhal1 was replaced by a differently named version. This
> happens occasionally, although usually apt/aptitude/Synaptic handles
> it properly.
>
> Or possibly not; my system has libhal1, and it is shown to be
> available in Stable, Testing, and Unstable versions (Lenny, Squeeze,
> and Sid). A whole slew of things depends on it, such as several
> parts of X, so you must be correct, and your system is pretty
> minimal.
the "minimal" part appears to be correct. it's a back-room server,
ssh-accessible only, no X. i've been removing things to the point
where i'm now down below 450 packages. i'm a big believer in
simplicity.
rday
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