Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:45:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What still requires HAL? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206100634250.75580@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120610140407.62ad9de8.miwi@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206091859040.71605@wonkity.com> <20120610140407.62ad9de8.miwi@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:01:08 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > >> 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? > > > Xfce4 need hal as well, (thunar), It used to, using hal for automounting removable media. Support for that was removed upstream in xfce a while back, 4.6 I think. Maybe hal can do something else for xfce, but I haven't noticed it since removing hal a year ago. > I prefer to let hald enabled as default. Reason is a lot pepole still > need it. Yes, unfortunately. We can only ask porters to make hal optional when the ported software supports that.
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