[arch-general] Removing HAL

[Jan de Groot]

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

You can remove HAL from DAEMONS, as GNOME doesn't use it. Only gnome-vfs
enabled applications can still use it, but GNOME itself doesn't contain
such applications anymore.