[Mageia-dev] HALectomy on mageia ?

Thu Mar 17 21:22:06 CET 2011

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,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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