HAL removal Feature page

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Removing hal dependencies from the wider package universe will obviously
> take a little longer. At some point we'll probably force the issue by
> orphaning hal, but we are clearly not at that point yet.

Just to be clear; does this mean that if hal is pulled in, it will
largely function?  Say there's some UI tool that does the equivalent
of "lshal".