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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: dbus_enable and hald_enable
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:29:38 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:54:23 +0200, Pawe=C5=82 Grzyb <pg.devbsd@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >=20
> >    can you explain to me what is it : dbus_enable=3D"YES" and
> > hald_enable=3D"YES" in file /etc/rc.conf? What is their function?
>=20
> Those enable the startup of the DBUS and HAL services via their
> control files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Those services are often
> needed for X, and programs related to X (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, and
> many programs that have "Use DBUS for something" compile time
> options set).
>=20
> Sadly, those don't provide "man dbus" or "man hal" in a very
> impolite manner. I'm sure you can find more documentation on
> the web, but it may already be outdated.
>=20
> If you ask what HAL and DBUS actually *ARE*, I'm not sure what
> to answer - to me, they are both useless. :-)

I believe HAL will be going away fairly soon, with its functionality
being merged into udev on Linux.

--=20
Bruce