[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#574032: k3b should depend on hal

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Sebastian Ramacher ha scritto:
> Package: k3b
> Version: 1.90.0~rc1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> hal is used by k3b for finding devices. Without hal installed, k3b
> shows the following error message:
> 
> No optical drive found.
> K3b did not find any optical device in your system.
> Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding
> devices.
> 
> So, k3b without hal is rather useless. Nevertheless, k3b does not depend
> on hal (and doesn't recommend or suggest hal).

I think the problem is a bit more complex, because i have hal running 
but still k3b does not find the device it should.

Gentoo users report compiling k3b against policykit instead of hal as a 
workaround:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/292281

thanks,
riccardo