On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:48:23AM +0200, Scott Ritchie wrote: > 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)
The truth is more: - HAL upstream is the same as udisk upstream - HAL was abandoned in favour of udisk. ciao, Marcus
