Orphaning and retiring HAL

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On 03/15/2011 09:30 PM, Andy Lawrence wrote:
> More packages using/tagged for hal-libs?  Or perhaps just dependencies that
> will need to be fixed.
> 
> Removing:
>  hal-libs
> Removing for dependencies:
..
>  gimp
..

I wonder why gimp depends on hal directly. For scanner, perhaps?
openSUSE seems to have split the hal-dependent module to a separate
subpackage as of May last year:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opensuse/updates/11.3-test/i586/gimp-module-hal-2.6.8-7.3.1.i586.html

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Michel Alexandre Salim

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