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Subject: Re: What still requires HAL?
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Kris Moore wrote:

> I'm going to be playing with removing HAL support in PC-BSD here in the
> near future. We've created our own auto-mounting GUI application, which
> works regardless of the DE being used. Plus mav@ has created some
> patches he will be hopefully be putting into HEAD soon, which does
> CD/DVD insert notification / polling for devd. With this in place I'm
> not sure what else HAL would be needed for. Does Xorg still use it for
> anything, like mouse detection?

Not with AutoAddDevices off, or even better, with xorg-server built with 
HAL disabled.

But that's just X.  DEs have other requirements.  xfce doesn't 
require it if the options are disabled in x11-wm/xfce4-session and 
devel/gvfs.