[arch-dev-public] Retiring hal
As all major projects (KDE, XFCE and GNOME, Xorg) have been ported to udev/upower/udisks instead of hal, I would like to retire hal from our distribution. Right now we have several open bugs in hal. Some are packaging bugs, some are upstream bugs that will never get fixed. Upstream development for hal is completely dead and so should our hal package. I see no reason to keep hal in our distribution anymore, so I already went ahead a bit and built gnome-vfs without hal support. Other packages will follow soon and when all is done hal can be removed.
Am 15.04.2011 09:59, schrieb Jan de Groot: > As all major projects (KDE, XFCE and GNOME, Xorg) have been ported to > udev/upower/udisks instead of hal, I would like to retire hal from our > distribution. Right now we have several open bugs in hal. Some are > packaging bugs, some are upstream bugs that will never get fixed. > Upstream development for hal is completely dead and so should our hal > package. > I see no reason to keep hal in our distribution anymore, so I already > went ahead a bit and built gnome-vfs without hal support. Other packages > will follow soon and when all is done hal can be removed. + 1 Move on and remove it. As you said, it isn't necessary anymore and the most programs has it as optional dependency. Daniel
Am 15.04.2011 09:59, schrieb Jan de Groot:
As all major projects (KDE, XFCE and GNOME, Xorg) have been ported to udev/upower/udisks instead of hal, I would like to retire hal from our distribution. Right now we have several open bugs in hal. Some are packaging bugs, some are upstream bugs that will never get fixed. Upstream development for hal is completely dead and so should our hal package. I see no reason to keep hal in our distribution anymore, so I already went ahead a bit and built gnome-vfs without hal support. Other packages will follow soon and when all is done hal can be removed.
Required By: e-modules-extra-svn gnome-device-manager gnome-vfs podsleuth synce-libsynce synce-odccm thoggen thunar-vfs This does not include optdepends. $ LANG=C pacman -Q hal error: package "hal" not found So +1.
Required By: e-modules-extra-svn gnome-device-manager gnome-vfs podsleuth synce-libsynce synce-odccm thoggen thunar-vfs
On 15 April 2011 10:11, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote: thoggen doesn't build without HAL and developers seems to miss the skills[1] to port it to UDisks. Also, the development doesn't seem more active (last commit 8 months ago). Is the only one package still depending on hal, I guess we should drop it too. [1] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.thoggen.devel -- Andrea
On 8 August 2011 20:02, Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
[1] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.thoggen.devel http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.thoggen.devel/394 *
-- Andrea
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
podsleuth synce-libsynce synce-odccm thoggen thunar-vfs
uired By: e-modules-extra-svn gnome-device-manager gnome-vfs thoggen doesn't build without HAL and developers seems to miss the skills[1] to port it to UDisks. Also, the development doesn't seem more active (last commit 8 months ago). Is the only one package still depending on hal, I guess we should drop it too.
+1 Drop it. -t
On 08.08.2011 20:31, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
podsleuth synce-libsynce synce-odccm thoggen thunar-vfs
uired By: e-modules-extra-svn gnome-device-manager gnome-vfs thoggen doesn't build without HAL and developers seems to miss the skills[1] to port it to UDisks. Also, the development doesn't seem more active (last commit 8 months ago). Is the only one package still depending on hal, I guess we should drop it too.
+1
Drop it.
Nothing happened yet so +1, but I don't know if we should wait for a response from Mateusz. -- Florian Pritz
On 11 August 2011 15:23, Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at> wrote:
Nothing happened yet so +1, but I don't know if we should wait for a response from Mateusz. I just moved HAL and thoggen to AUR.
-- Andrea
participants (6)
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Andrea Scarpino
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Daniel Isenmann
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Florian Pritz
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Jan de Groot
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Thomas Bächler
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Tom Gundersen