On 11/04/10 01:57, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 13:57 -0400, stosss wrote:
>> I have heard that HAL is going away. udev seems to work well in place
>> of HAL. I do not know what the overall Linux community is planning
>> with its planned replacement for HAL.
>
> Correct. Udev itself takes over the core function of HAL, as a
> repository for information about hardware, and as a source of events
> when devices are added and removed. Other applications that previously
> used HAL to do this (e.g Xorg, Network Manager, Gnome/KDE) are being
> rewritten to use udev directly. In most cases this has already been done
> - my current desktop (Xorg 1.8, Gnome 2.30) no longer has HAL installed.

How do you compile gnome-volume-manager without HAL?

Andy
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