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Subject: Re: What still requires HAL?
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:

> Does Gnome still require HAL?  Does KDE?  xfce does not.  Are we
> approaching a point at which the xorg-server port option for HAL can
> be set to default to off?

KDE uses a hardware abstraction library called Solid. On FreeBSD, it
still uses HAL; the options would be to either write a devd backend for
it or somehow make FreeBSD work with udev and friends (for which a
backend already exists and is the default on Linux).