Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 04/02/09 Alan McKinnon said: 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. That explains why even on Ubuntu I shut off dbus and hal, and

Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 04/02/09 Alan McKinnon said: 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

[gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-03 Thread Dirk Uys
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