[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#660521: start hal on boot : (needed for flash DRM authentication)

[Michael Biebl]

On 19.02.2012 18:16, Andres Cimmarusti wrote:

> I tried, naively, to copy the /etc/init.d/hal file (present in squeeze)
> into the same directory of my wheezy computer but this still didn't
> work.
> 
> Could you please re-enable hal to start automatically if one decides to
> install it from the repositories? I mean it's not currently installed by
> default anyways, so allowing it to start automatically should be no
> issue, I hope.

hal is started on-demand via D-Bus activation. This way it doesn't have
to run needlessly if no other service/application is using it.

The sysv init script won't be added back.


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