[Mageia-dev] HALectomy on mageia ?

[Remy CLOUARD]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:32:23PM -0300, Balcaen John wrote:
> I noticed a thread in mandriva maintainer mailing list regarding a HALectomy.
> 
> So far there's not a lot of program currently linked to hal :
> urpmf --requires libhal.so.1
> lib64gnome-vfs2_0:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> libgphoto-common:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> hal:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> lib64hal1:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> gimp:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> gnome-pilot:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> xfburn:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> lib64synce0:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> lib64rapi2:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> halevt:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> nut-drivers-hal:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> libvirt-utils:libhal.so.1()(64bit)
> 
> 
> Debian & fedora are also working on it cf
> http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval
> 
> Should we go for it ?
> 
> -- 
> Balcaen John
FWIW, halevt can be dropped with hal. udisks is a drop-in replacement
for it. On top of that, its use is kinda limited to people that don’t
use a desktop environment that handle automounting itself (and those
should consider using udisks instead)

Regards,
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