On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:20:47PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server > Configuration HOWTO", section 3. "Configuring Xorg" says: > > "Hal comes with many premade device rules, also called policies. > These policy files are available in /usr/....../policy. Just find a > few that suit your needs most closely and copy them to /etc/...." > > "For example, to get a basic working keyboard/mouse combination, you > could copy the following files... > /usr/.........../10-input-policy.fdi > /usr/.........../10-x11-input.fdi" > > . Am I the only person that finds this semantic gibberish? Is there > any explanation somewhere of what a "policy" aka "device rule" is? What > is the semantic significance of a "device rule"? What does it mean, to > "rule a device", or what sort of restrictions are being placed on this > device?
My solution to simplify Gentoo... waltd...@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask sys-libs/pam sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal You'll have to do a manual depclean (very carefully) and revdep-rebuild, but it's worth the effort to purify your Gentoo system. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
