Apparently, though unproven, at 01:59 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly:
> Brian Waters wrote: > > Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu > > (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that > > I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships > > with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box, > > and I'm excited for Xfce 4.8.) > > > > It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if > > HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at > > all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm > > wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages, > > dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL > > dependency. > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > - BW > > I use KDE here but with KDE 4.6, hal is gone. I use xorg 1.9 and no hal > there. If nothing in xfce doesn't need it, then I think it is gone. > All this is on amd64. I'm in the process of updating my x86 rig so I > could answer for it in a day or so. Give me a poke if you need a > report. ;-) > > Keep in mind, there are still a few packages that you CAN enable hal > on. They are disabled here and still work fine as far as I know. I > haven't burned a CD/DVD yet but k3b does see the drive and all. I would > think it would work. That reminds me, I need to update some backups. o_O Everything left here is optional: $ equery depends hal * These packages depend on hal: app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) app-emulation/wine-1.3.11 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) app-misc/hal-info-20091130 (>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10) dev-libs/e_dbus-1.0.0 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) media-gfx/gimp-2.6.11 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.10 (hal ? >=sys-apps/hal-0.5) media-tv/xbmc-10.0 (hal ? sys-apps/hal) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
