On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
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>
> 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?
>
To me, yes. If you make a mistake and depclean hal by mistake then it
seems you can get it back in.
> allan
>
> PS Why is no one else having this problem?
I don't use xdm?
Granted, it seems my current state is a bit strange. There is a lot of
stuff on my system that says it depends on hal, but then again i don't
start it explicitly. Other things apparently do however:
c2stable ~ # equery depends hal
[ Searching for packages depending on hal... ]
app-cdr/k3b-2.0.0 (sys-apps/hal)
app-emulation/vmware-workstation-7.1.2.301548 (sys-apps/hal)
app-misc/hal-info-20090716 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.30.0-r1 (battstat & hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.3)
gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.24.3-r1 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7)
gnome-base/gvfs-1.6.4-r2 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10)
gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.30.1 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5.9)
kde-base/solid-4.4.5 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.9 (hal? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.7-r1 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.2.12 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
xfce-base/exo-0.3.107 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
xfce-base/thunar-1.0.2 (hal? sys-apps/hal)
c2stable ~ # rc-update show
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
dbus | default
hostname | boot
keymaps | boot
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
modules | boot
net.eth0 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
ntp-client | default
ntpd | default
rmnologin | boot
sshd | default
syslog-ng | default
udev-postmount | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
vmware | default
xdm | default
c2stable ~ # /etc/init.d/hald status
* status: started
c2stable ~ #
I sort of figure that one of these days I'll see what I can build
that uses it today without it and then see how things go. In the short
terms it's sort of 'it ain't broke so...'
Note that I don't 'try' to use hal. It just shows up. I don't ask for
it in package.use and it's supposedly disabled in make.conf. Ah, the
mysteries of Life... ;-)
c2stable ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use | grep hal
c2stable ~ # cat /etc/make.conf | grep hal
USE="nptl nptlonly -ipv6 fortran unicode -hal dbus X -bluetooth
-esound -timidity -cups -java gnome gstreamer kde qt4 qt3support -arts
-eds pngi policykit"
c2stable ~ #
Cheers,
Mark
