hal-storage-addon is now a separate package

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Mar 16 15:19:23 UTC 2010


Right now, installing hal will result in hald-addon-storage polling 
removable devices from boot - even if nothing's paying attention. This 
is a surprisingly large power consumption hit on modern systems. udisks 
starts the polling on-demand, which is preferable, but some legacy 
applications still require hal.

I've just split hald-addon-storage out into its own package in rawhide.
If you need the hald-addon-storage functionality (ie, you rely on hal 
for media change events) then please add an explicit depends on 
hal-storage-addon.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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