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Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

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[Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

Hi
I see that hal is every day less used than the day before, and I wanted to know if there is a way to know what programs on my computer still need it.
I'm thinking about a command, I don't want to check the dependencies of all my packages manually...

Thank you

Last edited by Lowra (2010-07-08 17:31:03)

flamelab

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

pacman -Qi hal , and see the Required section.

Inxsible

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

man pacman. Look for the Query options

EDIT: Got beat by a second

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Lowra

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

Okay, thanks for your answers but the results of the commands seems wrong:
"Required By    : pcmanfm"

=> pcmanfm doesn't need it with the latest version
=> network-manager-applet, or networkmanager seems to need it, because if I do not start it, the networkmanager-applet does not appear in my tint2 panel

Inxsible

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

What version of pcmanfm do you have ?

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karol

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

There's a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20102 - [pcmanfm] why is HAL depends?

Lowra

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

I use pcmanfm 0.9.7
@karol: Ok got it for the bug, but for networkmanager ?

karol

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

You can often disable hal, but then you have to start dbus - have you tried it?

Lowra

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Re: [Solved] A way to know what programs still need the hal daemon ?

You can often disable hal, but then you have to start dbus - have you tried it?

Just tried, with dbus but without hal in the daemon array, it works
Thank you once again archers