On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:39:15 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is > what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' > use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) > > Many thanks for your sharing your experience, > Helmut.
There's no benefit as such. hal is a crock of shit that never worked right as the designer intended, and he said so publicly on his blog. He has a plan to replace it with something else that might work. It's similar to devfs which led to udev to replace it. Meanwhile, trying to run KDE or Gnome on a box without hal is becoming more and more painful with each update. Even xorg is getting in on the hal game and using hal to auto-configure input devices. Unless you know of a compelling need to remove it, chances are your life will be some much easier if you just add hal to USE and be done with it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
