Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Waters
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Dale wrote: > In GIMP under the file menu, there is a option to get pictures from a > camera.  I have never used that but I guess that is where hal comes in.  It > may be something else but that is all I could find. Christ, it's like .dll hell all over again. Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Waters
I can't imagine why the GIMP would depend on HAL... lol. And for the record, yes, I am not on Gentoo right now. - BW On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:59 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did > opine thusly: > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Waters
mes. - BW On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Waters wrote: > [...] >> So I'm >> wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages, >> dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get

[gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Waters
Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box, and I'm excited for Xf