On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > USE="hal" is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid > and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization. > > This is preparation for dropping the uncompressed usb.ids file from > sys-apps/usbutils, which HAL relies on. > > Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to > prevent overlapping features. > > -Samuli >
Good evening, Why didn't you use the news utility to inform users about this change and possible transition steps/migration guide? This is a rather big change that might (or may not) require a bit of effort from non-power users to migrate their systems to the new backend. A short summary of http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html would be nice but I guess it is too late for that since another major change occurred without advertising it properly to our users. Regards, -- Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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