[arch-general] Removing HAL

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:07 +0600, Галымжан Кожаев wrote:
> Hi list.
> Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast
> first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc).
> After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the
> system now takes 30-40 seconds to load.
> I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time during boot and it's
> functionality can be replaced by udev.
> How could I completely remove HAL and still use GNOME without troubles? Is
> it possible?
> I have:
> - GNOME 2.30
> - xorg 1.8
> - hal 0.5
> 
Gnome is what is taking ages to load, there's not much you can do about
it. Hal dependencies will be removed eventually (I don't use it on Gnome
myself) but the problem isn't Hal.