Re: hal & KDE

On 05/16/2010 10:42 AM, Leonid Podolny wrote:
> Hi,
> While merging x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1 I encountered the following
> warning:
>
> Usage of hal is strongly discouraged. Please migrate to udev.
>  From next major release on the hal support will be fully disabled.
> Both hal and udev flags are enabled.
> Enabling only udev!
>
> I guess that the message above speaks only about the HAL dependency of
> the Xorg itself, i.e. it doesn't mean that general usage of HAL at the
> system is discouraged/deprecated. Obviously, KDE depends pretty heavily
> on HAL.
> Is it correct?

Correct.  This refers only to X itself.  Everything else is still free 
to use HAL.  To avoid the warning, simply disable the "hal" USE flag for 
x11-base/xorg-server only.