Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread sam new
"They think that they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automounting working",in Xorg 1.8, udev will replace HAL . we can use devicekit-disks package to mount USB stick or CD,USE polkit-gnome or ntfs3g to mount NTFS filesystem. so HAL is not needed.may be modify gnome-mount

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Just after posting this, I realized that KDE 4.4 uses policykit, but 4.5 uses the new polkit. I guess that's why I never needed to mess with any configuration files. On 07/29/2010 03:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Btw, I think now the package is "polkit", not "policykit"; I think the first

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Btw, I think now the package is "polkit", not "policykit"; I think the first replaced the second. If you enable the "policykit" USE flag for kdelibs and consolekit, only sys-auth/polkit gets installed, not sys-auth/policykit. However, if you enable that USE flag globally in make.conf, then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 23:08:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > And why do

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat your cat. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place?  It's not gonna >>> eat your cat. >> >> Although it may kill your cr

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat your cat. Although it may kill your crew. I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna > eat your cat. Although it may kill your crew. -- Neil Bothwick I'm not closed minded, you're just wrong. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 05:44 AM, sam new wrote: Hi All, As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE="-hal" in /etc/make.conf ,and recompile the packages, and also modify /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD="no" ,exec rc-update