On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:34 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jan de Groot<[email protected]> wrote: > > DeviceKit-Disks will replace the functionality that used to be provided > > by hal. GNOME will no longer use hal for this. I don't know about KDE, > > but I think they will follow soon. Hal will stay alive, but it has > > received deprecation status upstream, which means that only bugfixes > > will get applied, no new features anymore. > > LOL this is so confusing. So what happens with xorg that now requires > hal for keyboards and mice? We now need a daemon running to recognize > input devices and nothing else?
DeviceKit-Power replaces the power management inside hal DeviceKit-Disks replaces the storage management inside hal Udev 145 replaces DeviceKit, both DeviceKit-Disks and DeviceKit-Power use udev directly now. The future will either bring DeviceKit-Input, or xorg-server will get ported to lib(g)udev instead. I don't know which path will be taken and when such a thing will get implemented, but intil then, Hal will stay in the repositories.
