> >>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Not for X. You may still need it for other things...
> >>
> >> Allan
> >>
> > Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
>
> and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support

Hi,

How can I know if I still need HAL?

Best regards,

Guillermo Leira

On 06/21/2010 06:35 AM, Guillermo Leira wrote:

WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?



Not for X. You may still need it for other things...

Allan


Most notabaly KDE and Thunar


and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support


Hi,

How can I know if I still need HAL?

Best regards,

Guillermo Leira






After an upgrade, it will remain on your system if you do a pacman -Qdt

On 21/06/10 20:35, Guillermo Leira wrote:

WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?



Not for X. You may still need it for other things...

Allan


Most notabaly KDE and Thunar


and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support


Hi,

How can I know if I still need HAL?



run "/etc/rc.d/hal stop" and remove it from your DAEMONS array. If
stuff breaks, you needed it.


Allan

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:35:23 +0200
"Guillermo Leira" <gleira@gleira.com> wrote:

> > >>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Not for X. You may still need it for other things...
> > >>
> > >> Allan
> > >>
> > > Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
> >
> > and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys
> > support
>
> Hi,
>
> How can I know if I still need HAL?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Guillermo Leira
>
>
>

You still need it if you're using XFCE.

Ananda

$ pacman -Qi hal
Name : hal
Version : 0.5.14-4
.........
Required By : gnome-vfs vlc
.........

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ananda Samaddar <ananda@samaddar.co.uk>wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:35:23 +0200
> "Guillermo Leira" <gleira@gleira.com> wrote:
>
> > > >>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Not for X. You may still need it for other things...
> > > >>
> > > >> Allan
> > > >>
> > > > Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
> > >
> > > and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys
> > > support
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I know if I still need HAL?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Guillermo Leira
> >
> >
> >
>
> You still need it if you're using XFCE.
>
> Ananda
>



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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:46:13AM -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> >How can I know if I still need HAL?
> [...]
> After an upgrade, it will remain on your system if you do a pacman -Qdt

... which will, however, only work if hal hasn't been installed
explicitly and will also disregard optdeps.

If you're not sure whether to remove hal or net, it's best to check
packages for hal optdeps and disable hal for a while (remove it from the
"DAEMONS" line in your "/etc/rc.conf"). If everything still works as
expected you can most likely remove it.

Im not 100% sure if KDE will work whit out hall, but KDE doesent use hal
directly instead it uses the Solid framework of KDE. Solid isint dependant of
one spesific bacend, but its like phonon so you can have multiple differend back
ends whit it. i do not have any Idea of the state of differend backebnd, mayby
some one whit more knowelege could provide additional information.

> > How can I know if I still need HAL?
> >
>
> run "/etc/rc.d/hal stop" and remove it from your DAEMONS array. If
> stuff breaks, you needed it.
>
> Allan

Thank you very much to all. :-)

I'll have to mix all the answers: I have systems with XFCE and GNOME, physical and virtual... I'll check dependencies and I'll also try to remove hal from daemons array.

Best Regards,

Guillermo Leira

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Ananda Samaddar <ananda@samaddar.co.uk>wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:35:23 +0200
> "Guillermo Leira" <gleira@gleira.com> wrote:
>
> > > >>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Not for X. You may still need it for other things...
> > > >>
> > > >> Allan
> > > >>
> > > > Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
> > >
> > > and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys
> > > support
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I know if I still need HAL?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Guillermo Leira
> >
> >
> >
>
> You still need it if you're using XFCE.
>
> Ananda
>


that's because Thunar and Exo still use hal

Matthew Monaco wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 06:35 AM, Guillermo Leira wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I know if I still need HAL?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Guillermo Leira
>>
> After an upgrade, it will remain on your system if you do a pacman -Qdt
>
According to that rule, I don't need xorg-server !??? Some packages
are missing a dep here, I think...

Jerome
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