[arch-dev-public] Retiring hal

15 Apr 2011

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

Jan de Groot

Daniel Isenmann

Thomas Bächler

Andrea Scarpino

Andrea Scarpino

Tom Gundersen

Florian Pritz

Andrea Scarpino

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