e17 and e_hal issues

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FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:35 pm

never mind - using xfce now, fed up with wasting my time in trying to get it to work

the_mgt · Post by **the_mgt** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:19 am

Since the global masking of hal useflag, you need to install eeze and e_dbus with udev useflag.

Again, ask in #gentoo-e on freenode, I am idling there 24/7 and you will get faster answers. I am not always browsing the forums.

FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:21 am

the_mgt wrote:Since the global masking of hal useflag, you need to install eeze and e_dbus with udev useflag.

Again, ask in #gentoo-e on freenode, I am idling there 24/7 and you will get faster answers. I am not always browsing the forums.

i did add udev use flag to them, and still it gave me the issue above, i have a few things to do (setting up laser printer on linux) then i may consider trying my luck with e17 again

Post by **asturm** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:21 am

I think I found eeze-9999 as a solution for that problem with the first google result.

FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:23 am

genstorm wrote:I think I found eeze-9999 as a solution for that problem with the first google result.

so did i, and i installed it, with ukit,udev useflags, still it craped out, only thing i did notice was that the working version from overlay (enlightenment) was @ 699, after having to re-install whole laptop due to a complete cock up on my part the version i was pulling down yesterday was @700

Post by **asturm** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:38 am

Hmm, I emerged it on June 11th, 00:16. Anyway, that's it with live ebuilds, always some kind of struggling involved (perhaps >eeze-1.0.1 should be added to the enlightenment deps). Aside from that, e17 currently runs rockstable on my system, and I can't tell the same about supposedly stable KDE 4.6.4

the_mgt · Post by **the_mgt** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:24 pm

What was your issue? Did you try the places module? Tommy[D] should finally get rid of that one, upstream is unmaintained and it really needs hal on your system.

sera · Post by **sera** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:37 am

the_mgt wrote:What was your issue? Did you try the places module? Tommy[D] should finally get rid of that one, upstream is unmaintained and it really needs hal on your system.

The latest snapshot did work just fine with in tree deps before. The masking of the hal useflag breaks the ebuild. Well, that's only half the story. Not only got e_dbus-1.0.1 added without a hal useflag but it was removed from earlier versions as well (without rev bump!).

I had to live with hal for 10 years, why should I care if it remains here just a little longer. It's hard to understand the obsession of getting rid of hal at all cost. There are certainly a lot of ebuilds out in the wild which got hurt with this pointless mask, encouraging people to mess with their profile or leaving comments like "never mind - using xfce now, fed up with wasting my time in trying to get it to work" in the forum.

the_mgt · Post by **the_mgt** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:16 am

I hear you! I also don't understand the obsession, as you call it. It is actually the first time I noticed that a working, stable feature is masked by removing the useflag from profile, when there is not even a security thread.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-67 ... ml#6720636