On Sunday 18 April 2010 12:05:00 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Has anyone else stripped HAL completely out of their Arch install?
Would be too nice, but it looks like KDE 4.5 won't be HAL-free yet and we'll have to wait for 4.6 - so I will keep HAL around for at least half a year.
The important question is: by what will hal replaced?
UDev
If it is replaced by similar software and if the design flaws in the
linux
kernel that support problem with hal are not fixed, then I expect basically the same problems as before (note that I am only speaking about CD/DVD/BD recording related issues).
You can't take a single high level fault as a indication of a whole software stacks uselessness. Hal works well for me - in that it does what I want. UDev, which hal is build upon, has been around for ages and works fine creating the device nodes for all your mounting needs :) And anyway, if there is this major design flaw in the linux kernel that stops you writing CDs and other media, you need to say what it is, and why they should spend time, which is likely to be considerable, due to the fact that architectural changes implemented at the maintenance stage will always be the largest, fixing a fault that annoys you, and I have never noticed... -- Laurie Clark-Michalek