When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I have no `hal' installed.
I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember having some trouble with keyboard/mouse, and hal not starting, but that was quite a while back. I don't remember making a conscious effort to get rid of hal either. Evey thing seems to work ok here. I do notice a problem on bootup where the keyboard/mouse I have attached to a KVM does not become usable until AFTER the grub prompt. Somewhere between there and the appearance of the login prompt it becomes usable. But that has gone on at least a yr if not longer. So is there something wrong if I have no hal installed. Is it just not necessary or has it been replaced?
