[arch-general] Removing HAL

[Галымжан Кожаев]

I disabled hal, seems everything works fine. This reduced loading time
for 4-5 seconds. gnome-vfs depends on hal package, does it mean that I
can't totally remove hal from my system?

2010/9/10, Ivan S. Freitas <ivansichfreitas at gmail.com>:
> 2010/9/10 Галымжан Кожаев <kozhayev at gmail.com>:
>> 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 ?
>
> udev should take care of it. But, IMHO, it's not hal that is slowing
> your boot, unless you use a very old computer.
>
>>
>> 2010/9/10 Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
>>>
>>> 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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