On 16/06/15 12:18, JeremyBekka C wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
I have a question about the deprecated program hal. We like to
stream videos from Amazon.com but we need hal installed in order to
make it work. The Hal Debian wiki says that it is being deprecated
and it is being replaced by udev (https://wiki.debian.org/hal).
Since vdev is being written to replace udev, are there any plans to
incorperate hal's functions into vdev or keep maintaining it
seperaratly?
Do you know what specific functions of hal you need? Hal's
functionality got split between udisks/udisks2, upower, and udev some
time ago. Things like device plug state, device properties, and device
capabilities are now tracked by udev (in /run/udev) and accessed by
libudev, for example. My goal for vdev is to be compatible with udev,
so if you can use udev today, you should be able to use vdev when it's
ready.
From what I remember it's flashplayer, and it uses hal to build or get
a GUID based on hardware ID's (ethernet macs, and other h/w identifiers)
which is required for the digital rights management to be able to lock
the content to that particular combination thus preventing MitMing the
content for aka Piracy...
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