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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:45:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What still requires HAL?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206100634250.75580@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120610140407.62ad9de8.miwi@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206091859040.71605@wonkity.com> <20120610140407.62ad9de8.miwi@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:01:08 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> Does Gnome still require HAL?  Does KDE?  xfce does not.  Are we
>> approaching a point at which the xorg-server port option for HAL can
>> be set to default to off?
>
>
> Xfce4 need hal as well, (thunar),

It used to, using hal for automounting removable media.  Support for 
that was removed upstream in xfce a while back, 4.6 I think.  Maybe hal 
can do something else for xfce, but I haven't noticed it since removing 
hal a year ago.

> I prefer to let hald enabled as default. Reason is a lot pepole still 
> need it.

Yes, unfortunately.  We can only ask porters to make hal optional when 
the ported software supports that.



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