On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:07 +0600, Галымжан Кожаев wrote: > Hi list. > Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast > first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). > After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the > system now takes 30-40 seconds to load. > I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time during boot and it's > functionality can be replaced by udev. > How could I completely remove HAL and still use GNOME without troubles? Is > it possible? > I have: > - GNOME 2.30 > - xorg 1.8 > - hal 0.5 You can remove HAL from DAEMONS, as GNOME doesn't use it. Only gnome-vfs enabled applications can still use it, but GNOME itself doesn't contain such applications anymore.