[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#525495: Please provide a minimal hal package

[Michael Biebl]

tags 525495 wontfix
thanks

Harald Braumann wrote:

> Would it be possible, to provide a minimal hal package that _only_ provides
> information about hardware and hotplugging events? All the additional stuff
> could be provided in an add-on package, which hal would recommend. I think,
> this could be useful also for others who don't use the GNOME or KDE OS.

Hi Harry,

I agree with you, that HAL has somewhat grown into a kitchensync over its
lifetime. Unfortunately it's not easily, if at all possible to rip HAL apart in
smaller pieces (that's why I mark the bug as wontfix).

On the other hand, there is work underway to replace HAL with something new,
more modular, called DeviceKit, where you have separate components (e.g.
DeviceKit-power, DeviceKit-disks), which can be installed separately and will
deprecate/replace HAL step by step.

Hope this information helps.

Cheers,
Michael

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