On Monday 20 December 2010 15:55:40 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Vincent-Xavier JUMEL <endymion+gen...@thetys-retz.net> writes:
> > Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit
> >
> >> Something seems wrong.
> >> Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run.
> >> Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but again today depclean wants to
> >> remove it.
> >
> > Have you look on how X.org packages are built on your computer. You
> > should build it with udev support.
>
> I think it is enabled for xorg-server
>
> gottl...@ajglap ~ $ eix xorg-server
> [I] x11-base/xorg-server
> Available versions: 1.7.6 1.7.7-r1 [m](~)1.8.2 [m](~)1.9.2
> [m](~)1.9.2.902 {debug dmx doc hal ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl
> static-libs tslib +udev xorg} Installed versions: 1.7.7-r1(09:59:41 AM
> 12/19/2010)(ipv6 kdrive nptl sdl xorg -debug -dmx -hal -minimal -tslib)
> Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
> Description: X.Org X servers
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Installed versions: 1.7.7-r1(09:59:41 AM 12/19/2010)(ipv6 kdrive nptl sdl
xorg -debug -dmx -hal -minimal -tslib)
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It's installed with "hal" disabled.
> To be sure I temporarily added it to make.conf but an emerge update
> world did not want to merge any packages
Add "--newuse" to the flags and it should pick it up:
emerge -vauD --newuse world
> >> I can easily add hal to world, but should xdm depend on it?
>
> I still wonder why xdm, which claims to need hal doesn't depend on it
> and why suddenly depclean wants to remove it.
See above, "hal" isn't added to the installed xorg-server use-flags
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Joost
