On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 00:26, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/27/2010 11:28 AM, Thomas Trepl wrote:
>> Isn't HAL being used by k3b, the CD/DVD burning program? I'm not sure about
>> that but as i believe to remember that it was required to have it installed
>> when building KDE4 (even it works without HAL). I can't get k3b work proper
>> without HAL. It is no direct prerequisite to k3b but somewhere in the deep 
>> sea
>> of KDE4.
>> Whenever we get KDE4 into the book (I think its time to have a deeper look to
>> it as it became quite usable in the meanwhile), we will have to add KDE4-apps
>> as well, one of them will be K3b, digikam and such... Then we would be forced
>> to re-add HAL again.
>>
>> Again, I'm not sure about what I said above, I need to verify it... Please
>> ignore if its total nonsense.
>>
>
> IDK...haven't even looked at KDE4, but I had thought that it's fast
> moving target (along with cmake (help)) was why it hadn't been
> introduced to the book yet.  If those packages are still hanging around
> in 4.5, then I must be wrong.  As of this new Gnome release, I don't
> believe anything in the Gnome stack uses any of the three proposed for
> removal (HAL, PolicyKit, DeviceKit) but uses the replacements polkit and
> u*.  Are we sure that they are still needed for KDE-4.5.1?
>
> -- DJ Lucas
>

Pretty positive that KDE still relies on that obsolete HAL.
As for PolicyKit and DeviceKit, KDE has been smart enough to obsolete
them in favor of newer ones.

-- 
later, Robert Xu
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