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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
