On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 10:04 -0700, Steve G wrote: > With regards to the other e-mail...I still don't know what the problem is that > hal fixes. Why can't the missing functionality be added back? How did it become > missing? http://www.freedesktop.org/software/hal More or less, hardware discovery and tagging with standard attributes that any process can get over DBUS using a simple library. Kudzu is really quite static, think of hal as a daemonized kudzu with more flexibility and you'll be a bit closer to the situation. Dan