On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:32:23PM -0300, Balcaen John wrote: > I noticed a thread in mandriva maintainer mailing list regarding a HALectomy. > > So far there's not a lot of program currently linked to hal : > urpmf --requires libhal.so.1 > lib64gnome-vfs2_0:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > libgphoto-common:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > hal:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > lib64hal1:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > gimp:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > gnome-pilot:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > xfburn:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > lib64synce0:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > lib64rapi2:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > halevt:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > nut-drivers-hal:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > libvirt-utils:libhal.so.1()(64bit) > > > Debian & fedora are also working on it cf > http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval > > Should we go for it ? > > -- > Balcaen John FWIW, halevt can be dropped with hal. udisks is a drop-in replacement for it. On top of that, its use is kinda limited to people that don’t use a desktop environment that handle automounting itself (and those should consider using udisks instead)
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