finding my way with baselayout, openrc, hal and udev

[qbic2005]

The baselayout - openrc - udev options are not very clear to me.

I currently have (had) a gnome (stable) with hal support, which worked fine for me until the last upgrade broke it.
Now I came across an article that says that hal in gnome is depreciated and will be dropped and that udev is the new light. Oké I can live with that, let's go udev I thought

It seems udev (to run out of the box) wants you to get baselayout-2, it might not be such a bad option to go over to baselayout-2 anyway.

But it seems that baselayout-2 and openrc (from what I gathered, i need both) are still masked

So the question is wath is currently the most commen option to get?


Thanks for reading and many thanks for answering

[NeddySeagoon]

qbic2005,

hal being depreciated means it will be removed in some later release but it still works now. That means you don't need to do anything.

Baselayout2 and openrc have been good for about 3 years. Unmask and update if you like. Do follow the guide or you will be left with an unbootable box.

I use baselayout2, openrc, Gnome 2.28 with hal and udev.
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[Anon-E-moose]

[qbic2005]

it doesn't try to pull them "in" as you describe, udev just doesn't like the startup scripts from baselayout-1, asking you to switch over to baselayout-2

[Anon-E-moose]

[qbic2005]

I 'm talking about this:

[NeddySeagoon]

qbic2005,

With baselayout1, the init script starts udev. With baselaout2 udeb has its own startup script, that is run in the sysinit runlevel, That runlevel does not exist (and is not needed) with baselayout1.

In short,