xbmc doesn't require sys-apps/hal anymore. it is now optional. configure.in checks for the following: 1. udisks/(devicekit) 2. hal 3. pmount details: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=61133&highlight=udisks as udev/udisks/upower is the future way to go, we have now several possibilities. 1. drop sys-apps/hal dependency completely from the ebuild 2. make sys-apps/hal dependency optional via useflag i think atm best would be to go for option 2 since there are some stable ebuilds that still require hal and not everybody could have udisks/upower installed on their systems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xbmc Actual Results: xbmc pulls in hal which is not necessarily required. many systems are already "hal-free". Expected Results: xbmc should not pull in hal as a dependency. at least make it optional via an useflag.
addition: this was fixed in r29991. so this bug report refers to the 9999 and stable future ebuilds.
i dont see any pmount/udisk logic. ive simply added USE=hal via use_enable hal. http://sources.gentoo.org/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild?r1=1.54&r2=1.55
(In reply to comment #2) > i dont see any pmount/udisk logic. ive simply added USE=hal via use_enable > hal. > > http://sources.gentoo.org/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild?r1=1.54&r2=1.55 > thanks. looks like it's like an automatism: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9200
