[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 03:06 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> Does anyone know how much of HAL is needed in ArchLinux these days?
> I'm asking because I've learned that both udev and HAL configure the
> keymap of input devices nowdays and
> I wonder what other former HAL features are already implemented in udev.
> 

At this moment several applications, including XFCE and KDE, use hal for
removable device handling. xorg-server still uses hal to configure input
devices.
Starting from xorg-server 1.8, we'll disable the hal backend and switch
to udev, devices will get configured through udev rules in that case.
This will cause some breakage of existing setups, but there's no way to
enable both backends.
KDE should support udisks/upower in the next major release. I don't know
about XFCE though, but if that one follows, I'm almost sure hal will no
longer exist in 2011.