Bug 320175

Summary:	gnome-base/gnome-vfs needs USE="-hal" on Gnome 2.28
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Buell <alex.buell>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex Buell 2010-05-17 12:56:24 UTC

When building with Gnome 2.28/2.30, HAL use flag needs to be forced off


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2010-05-17 13:16:16 UTC

Why?

(also, please use proper summaries when reporting bugs ;-))

Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-17 13:19:40 UTC

*** Bug 320183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-17 13:19:44 UTC

*** Bug 320177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-17 13:19:47 UTC

*** Bug 320181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Alex Buell 2010-05-17 13:43:35 UTC

Gnome >= 2.28.x does not need HAL. Alternative functionality in the form of upower and udisks should be used instead.

Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-17 14:09:06 UTC

should -> may. Upstream is migrating away from hal and this is fine but we still get to support user who cannot run upower/udisks & co. We will not remove hal support until upstream packages do, see our statement in bug #313389.

Comment 7 Alex Buell 2010-05-17 14:40:59 UTC

*sigh* I had not noticed that a bug report had been filed on doing a halsectomy, sorry. 

I think the better solution is to make it strictly optional, as has been mentioned in bug #313389 

Personally, I think the sooner HAL is consigned to the dustbin of history, the better.