Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 23:36 +0100, Markos Chandras a écrit : > 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,
I wouldn't say it's too late for cases like this. A documentation about reasons and ways to remove hal support and still get a nice desktop experience is always re-assuring to users. Even if it comes one or two weeks too late. -- Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> Gentoo
