Maybe I should have filed this as a bug, but don't have a clue to which package should I assign it, if any.
I was forced to switch baselayout from stable 1.12.11* to 2.0.0, which triggered openrc install etc. I did all that etc , then after some time I noticed that system doesn't respond to PnP events. So I started looking around and have noticed that I have no /etc/init.d/hald and that hal daemon never gets called during boot. Then I tried to find alternate hald starting mechanism, but couldn't find any. I did "emerge -pv system | grep hal" and noticed that hal damon is not part of the system, but it is part of the world and it gets reemerged if I unmerge it, since 15-something packages depend on it throuh "hal" use flag. I took a peek at old and new baselayout and all openrc packages in tree I emerged ( 0.3 and 0.4.0). Their tar.bz2 files have nothing even remotely like /etc/init.d/hald Is this a bug or some kind of omission from my part ? Regards, Branko