Orphaning and retiring HAL

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 10:16 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 16 March 2011 17:16, Michel Alexandre Salim
> <salimma at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > I wonder why gimp depends on hal directly. For scanner, perhaps?
> 
> It was for tablet support, but the code could never have worked. We've
> dropped the hal and gnome-vfs2 deps from gimp in rawhide now.

Not tablet support, but support for weird input devices like the
PowerMate or joysticks.