[arch-general] Removing HAL

[Галымжан Кожаев]

Thanks for the replies. I added hal daemon to the DAEMONS list
according to this wiki page:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Daemons_and_modules_needed_by_GNOME
How does GNOME deal with USB flashdrive detection, etc without HAL ?

2010/9/10 Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
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> 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.
>



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