Harry Putnam wrote: > Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> writes: > > >> Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? >> It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for >> x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of >> my packages that need HAL: >> > > I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal was not in my useflags (by my > hand) until this last upgrade (two days ago). > > In the course of events I saw hal pop up in the output of > emerge -vuDp world. I'd already noticed hal was not on my system for > a while now... so quickly added `-hal' to /etc/make.conf. > > So from here on, its no mystery why I don't have hal. But before the > last upgrade, I don't recall having done anything explicit about hal > to remove it. And had gone through several upgrades without hal > popping up. > >
It may be the profile you are using. It may not have hal enabled for some reason therefore nothing was pulling it in. Me, if everything is working fine, I would leave hal out. I have seriously considered adding -hal to make.conf and seeing what happens. It just sort of tastes bad after all the hal problems I have had. Dale :-) :-)
