2010/12/22 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <[email protected]>: > ~amd64 (which is k3b-2.0.1-r1) still depends on HAL. The last time I > checked this, work was on-going to solve that. But, as of now, HAL is > the only way k3b has to find devices, in gentoo at least. I remember > that in the past there was a configurator where you could manually > configure the devices from k3b. I don't know if that code is still > there. Maybe the it is and the problem is that Gentoo removes it. > > The message at the end of the ebuild is suspicious in this regard. > > echo > elog "We don't install k3bsetup anymore because Gentoo doesn't need it." > elog "If you get warnings on start-up, uncheck the \"Check system" > elog "configuration\" option in the \"Misc\" settings window." > echo > > It might be possible to disable hal via some flag and then remove the > "-DK3B_BUILD_K3BSETUP=OFF" above you be able to manually configure k3b > without needing HAL.
As far as I can remember I think k3bsetup was more related to changing permissions on cdrecord & device nodes, not about detecting devices.
