Request for "WITHOUT_HAL" or a similiar thing.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:18 +0200, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I use some gnome-apps. But I do not ever use hal. I do not see its use for me
> apart from making me problems.
> Playback of dvds stops working as soon as it is running, and I have different
> problems with X when it runs, some of which I could fix, but...

You may want to read http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q6 .

> 
> I just don't see the use of that piece of software, or to put it an other way
> its flaws outshine its benefits for now, at least for me.
> 
> So what I wanted to ask is, if it wouldn't be possible to add a global
> "WITHOUT_HAL" flag or something.
> And further if it were possible to no longer just assume one wants hal, but
> rather make it a choice.

Hal support is optional in just about every port where it can be made
optional.  If you find a port that requires hal, but it could be
optional and is not, then let us know.

Joe

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