On 04/18/2010 12:22 AM, Rob Bean wrote: > I've recently started using Xorg 1.8 from the [xorg18] repo to finally be > able to get rid of HAL. Xorg is working fine, but I want to remove the > remaining packages that depend on HAL. > > It looks like there are only 3: gnome-vfs, gstreamer0.10-good-plugins, and > vlc. I can use ABS to rebuild these without HAL, but I'm concerned that > these packages may actually need it. > > Has anyone else stripped HAL completely out of their Arch install? My guess is that it is going to take a good while to get rid of hal for most of us. In my system 'pacman -Qi hal' reports exo, gnome-vfs, handbrake, pcmanfm, thunar, vlc and xorg-server as requiring hal. The new xorg-server does not depend on hal, it seems gnome-vfs and vlc can do with it too, but the others I don't know and my guess is that if they are really needed, it may take a while until upstream changes that.
