On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
installed?

I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
log server.

Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
removed?

Harry Putnam schrieb:
> On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
> installed?
>
> I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
> log server.
>
> Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
> removed?
>
>

My server (ssh, apache, tomcat, syslog-ng, djbdns, openvpn) doesn't need it.

hal might come in handy if you want to use hardware switches like the
power button but acpid might be enough for this.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp

On 22.02.2010 18:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
> On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
> installed?
>
I don't of any console based service that realy needs dbus or hal. Don't
think that a log server needs them. Espessially if you disable dbus and
hal in the use flags and do a recompilation of the system.

Harry Putnam wrote:
> On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
> installed?
>
> I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
> log server.
>
> Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
> removed?
>

They are totally redundant.

Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com