On 04/18/2010 12:22 AM, Rob Bean wrote:
I've recently started using Xorg 1.8 from the [xorg18] repo to finally be able to get rid of HAL. Xorg is working fine, but I want to remove the remaining packages that depend on HAL.
It looks like there are only 3: gnome-vfs, gstreamer0.10-good-plugins, and vlc. I can use ABS to rebuild these without HAL, but I'm concerned that these packages may actually need it.
Has anyone else stripped HAL completely out of their Arch install?
My guess is that it is going to take a good while to get rid of hal for most of us. In my system 'pacman -Qi hal' reports exo, gnome-vfs, handbrake, pcmanfm, thunar, vlc and xorg-server as requiring hal. The new xorg-server does not depend on hal, it seems gnome-vfs and vlc can do with it too, but the others I don't know and my guess is that if they are really needed, it may take a while until upstream changes that.