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Re: [trinity-devel] kdebase without hal?

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:38:07 -0500
> Le Wed, 7 Sep 2011 21:06:53 +0200,
> Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...> a écrit :
>
>> Dne st 7. září 2011 L0ner sh4dou napsal(a):
>> >
>> > Already tried that. No success. And in the CMakeLists.txt WITH_HAL
>> > is set to OFF. It throws at me this:
>> >
>> > -- checking for one of the modules 'hal'
>> > CMake Error at cmake/modules/TDEMacros.cmake:20 (message):
>> >   #################################################
>> >
>> >    hal is required, but was not found on your system
>> >
>> >   #################################################
>> > Call Stack (most recent call first):
>> >   ConfigureChecks.cmake:42 (tde_message_fatal)
>> >   CMakeLists.txt:125 (include)
>> >
>>
>> HAL is meanwhile required dependency. See roadmap:
>> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/RoadMap
> KDE3 hadn't HAL as a mandatory dependency, at least for KDE 3.5.4 which
> was part of the HAL-less (and 2.4 kernel) Slackware 11.0. Was it the
> CMake conversion which turned HAL into a mandatory dependency ?

As far as I can tell, yes.  ksmserver relies on HAL at the moment, and the
appropriate #ifdef logic has not yet been added to the code to disable
HAL.

HAL is simply a small background process that should not affect anything
else on your system.  Why doesn't it work on Gentoo?

Tim