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

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Riccardo Magliocchetti ha scritto:
> 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

Upgrading udisks and libgdu solved my issue, so just ignore my last 
email. Sorry.

thanks,
riccardo