On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna
eat your cat.
Although it may kill your crew.
I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think that
they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automounting
working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X. And if you
disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working.
E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id.
I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble.
But I kept HAL because it's very useful.
If you're on KDE, you will need policykit again in the future, since
with KDE 4.5 (to be released in a matter of days) it's not really
optional anymore. I got hit by this when updating to it (now at RC3):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444
