On 05/12/2011 07:02 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Damjan Jovanovic <damjan....@gmail.com> writes: > >> Udisks has regressed from the portability of HAL to being Linux-only, >> what are we going to do for BSDs/Solaris/others? > > Of course even if we add udisks we'll keep the HAL support around. It's > necessary for backwards compatibility, which is something we take > seriously, unlike Ubuntu. >
The distro position is that HAL has no upstream, is unmaintained, and conflicts with udisks/upower to the point where stuff starts breaking (eg, the battery monitor gets confused and reports you have 5% and 6 hours left)
