101028 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Harry Putnam did opine thusly: >> Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> writes: >>> From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : >>> To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag ; >> So no kind of hal flag in make.conf > or is `-hal' a typo that should be `drop 'hal' flag?
Yes, it's my own note to myself & reads wrongly for anyone else. My 'make.conf' has USE="-* ... gtk2 handbook ... " (ordered alphabetically) which means it does have "-hal", ie it drops 'hal'. > I wouldn't advise putting -hal in make.conf - that's globally > and too many other things on the desktop still need it. Not on my machines. I have used the "-* ... " approach for some years. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca