On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:34 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jan de Groot<jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
DeviceKit-Disks will replace the functionality that used to be provided by hal. GNOME will no longer use hal for this. I don't know about KDE, but I think they will follow soon. Hal will stay alive, but it has received deprecation status upstream, which means that only bugfixes will get applied, no new features anymore.
LOL this is so confusing. So what happens with xorg that now requires hal for keyboards and mice? We now need a daemon running to recognize input devices and nothing else?
DeviceKit-Power replaces the power management inside hal DeviceKit-Disks replaces the storage management inside hal Udev 145 replaces DeviceKit, both DeviceKit-Disks and DeviceKit-Power use udev directly now. The future will either bring DeviceKit-Input, or xorg-server will get ported to lib(g)udev instead. I don't know which path will be taken and when such a thing will get implemented, but intil then, Hal will stay in the repositories.