Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit
>>>
>>>> Something seems wrong.
>>>> Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run.
>>>> Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to
>>>> remove it.
>
> I'm running amd64 here but xdm doesn't show it needing hal here. It's
> not even in the USE flags and I did a emerge -epv xdm and it still
> didn't show it. It did pull in policykit tho.
>
> Could it be that it doesn't use hal anymore and you need to figure out
> what it is using? I know hal is going away but I haven't read that it
> already was. That said, I did notice that policykit was pulled in
> yesterday. Of course, xdm doesn't show it needs it either. Could it
> be udev?
To summarize
1. All is running fine but.
2. deplcean wants to remove hal and when it does xdm will not run.
3. I have run emerge world with --newuse, and have run revdep-rebuild,
and have remerged xdm.
4. Currently I just refuse depclean's offer to remove hal, halinfo, and
dmidecode.
My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I believe
at that time hal is going away and hence xdm won't need it.
Does this sound reasonable?
allan
PS Why is no one else having this problem?
