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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] GNOME 2.28.0
  • Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:44:15 -0700

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Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> Hi,
> gnome spells have been updated in test grimoire to GNOME 2.28.0.
> Some tarballs haven't been released yet, for example stable gtk+2 is
> still missing, but it is only a question of hours.
> So if you want to play with new gnome, don't forget to choose devel
> gtk+2 (cast -r -c gtk+2).
>
> I had only one problem:
> Some gnome spells need new policykit, moreover policykit tarballs were
> renamed to polkit, so I updated policykit and policykit-gnome (probably
> good idea to rename them in the future into polkit and polkit-gnome).
> That problem is with xorg server and hal. If you have xorg server
> compiled with hal (to find out the mouse or keyboard) and hal was
> compiled with policykit -> hal is broken after policykit update and X
> doesn't start because cann't find mouse and keyboard.
> Hal is deprecated by upstream (imho) so it is not possible to compile it
> with new policykit.
> You have to "cast -r -c hal" and forbit policykit support.
>
> Have a nice ...

The package should take care of this. An update should not leave a user
without a working keyboard/mouse.

IMO, fix it to automatically work or revert those GNOME changes.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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