Bug 320185 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1: HAL dependency?

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alex Buell 2010-05-17 13:02:10 UTC]

Needed HAL use flag forced off to remove dependency on HAL, can we make this
optional? 


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2010-05-18 07:33:08 UTC]

Take a look at the USE flags, hal isn't turned on by default, udev is.

Nothing to fix.

[Comment 2 Alex Buell 2010-05-18 09:26:40 UTC]

I'm afraid not. On PPC, xorg-server 1.8.1 has +hal forced on. 

alex@carbon /etc/portage/package.use $ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-18 10:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2010-05-16 12:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  527 2010-04-12 20:43 crossdev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  114 2010-05-16 12:49 gnome
alex@carbon /etc/portage/package.use $ sudo emerge -pv xorg-server

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1  USE="hal* ipv6 nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
alex@carbon /etc/portage/package.use $ sudo mv /root/xorg .
alex@carbon /etc/portage/package.use $ more xorg
x11-base/xorg-server -hal

alex@carbon /etc/portage/package.use $ sudo emerge -pv xorg-server

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1  USE="ipv6 nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -hal -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

It's actually my fault for not being clear enough. This only affects PPC. I've tested on x86 and there is no problem with it. 

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2010-05-18 15:28:57 UTC]

Then it's a profile issue, not a package issue. That's still not our responsibility. There's nothing for the X11 team to fix.