HAL status

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.net
Sun Apr 18 13:27:00 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 04:46 +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With X no longer using HAL for device configuration, what the status of
> > completely replacing HAL? I know udev, upower, and udisks are destined
> > to replace it, but since I run a tight setup and HAL is not in the
> > "Minimal" install on the F-13 media, I was wondering when a setup
> > completely without HAL would be possible (upower currently depends on it
> > through pm-utils). Thanks.
> 
> We are tracking the progress towards hal removal here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval

Here are some deps that I saw when trying to remove it..

Removing:
 hal                                                       x86_64
0.5.14-3.fc13                                       installed
1.2 M
Removing for dependencies:
 compiz-gnome                                              x86_64
0.8.6-1.fc13                                        installed
2.2 M
 desktop-effects                                           x86_64
0.8.6-1.fc13                                        @updates-testing
260 k
 gdm                                                       x86_64
1:2.29.92-6.fc13                                    installed
4.5 M
 gdm-plugin-fingerprint                                    x86_64
1:2.29.92-6.fc13                                    installed
75 k
 gdm-user-switch-applet                                    x86_64
1:2.29.92-6.fc13                                    installed
119 k
 gnome-applets                                             x86_64
1:2.30.0-1.fc13                                     installed
15 M
 gnome-packagekit                                          x86_64
2.30.0-2.fc13                                       @updates-testing
8.8 M
 gnome-panel                                               x86_64
2.30.0-1.fc13                                       installed
9.8 M
 gnome-power-manager                                       x86_64
2.30.0-1.fc13                                       installed
7.3 M
 gnome-session                                             x86_64
2.30.0-1.fc13                                       installed
1.7 M
 gnome-session-xsession                                    x86_64
2.30.0-1.fc13                                       installed
4.6 k
 hal-info                                                  noarch
20090716-3.fc12                                     installed
310 k
 plymouth-gdm-hooks                                        x86_64
0.8.1-3.fc13                                        installed
171  
 pm-utils                                                  x86_64
1.2.6.1-1.fc13                                      installed
259 k
 pulseaudio-gdm-hooks                                      x86_64
0.9.21-6.fc13                                       installed
385  
 smolt                                                     noarch
1.4.2.2-1.fc13                                      installed
1.0 M
 smolt-firstboot                                           noarch
1.4.2.2-1.fc13                                      installed
12 k
 upower                                                    x86_64
0.9.2-1.fc13                                        @updates-testing
327 k

Hope word wrap didnt' screw it up.


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Mike Chambers
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