Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Has anyone else stripped HAL completely out of their Arch install? > > Would be too nice, but it looks like KDE 4.5 won't be HAL-free yet and > we'll have to wait for 4.6 - so I will keep HAL around for at least half > a year. The important question is: by what will hal replaced? If it is replaced by similar software and if the design flaws in the linux kernel that support problem with hal are not fixed, then I expect basically the same problems as before (note that I am only speaking about CD/DVD/BD recording related issues). Jörg -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (uni) joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily