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 <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:59 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did > opine thusly: > >> Brian Waters wrote: >> > 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 Xfce 4.8.) >> > >> > It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if >> > HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at >> > all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. 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 rid of the HAL >> > dependency. >> > >> > Thanks a lot! >> > >> > - BW >> >> I use KDE here but with KDE 4.6, hal is gone. I use xorg 1.9 and no hal >> there. If nothing in xfce doesn't need it, then I think it is gone. >> All this is on amd64. I'm in the process of updating my x86 rig so I >> could answer for it in a day or so. Give me a poke if you need a >> report. ;-) >> >> Keep in mind, there are still a few packages that you CAN enable hal >> on. They are disabled here and still work fine as far as I know. I >> haven't burned a CD/DVD yet but k3b does see the drive and all. I would >> think it would work. That reminds me, I need to update some backups. o_O > > Everything left here is optional: > > $ equery depends hal > * These packages depend on hal: > app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) > app-emulation/wine-1.3.11 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) > app-misc/hal-info-20091130 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) > dev-libs/e_dbus-1.0.0 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) > media-gfx/gimp-2.6.11 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) > media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.10 (hal ? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5) > media-tv/xbmc-10.0 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
