Re: Orphaning and retiring HAL

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On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 06:36:53 pm Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:42 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > I'm planning to orphan the hal and hal-info packages in F15 and and
> > retire them in rawhide.
> > 
> > HAL has been dead upstream for 3 years now, and all development has
> > moved into udev, and the u* daemons like upower, udisks and urfkill.
> > The original maintainer and most of the original team want HAL dead.
> > 
> > The things that depend on HAL in F15 seem to be:
> > 
> > libconcord-0:0.23-2.fc15.i686
> 
> I'd really appreciate if someone could help port this over to udev; it
> shouldn't really be very hard but it's slightly beyond me, or at least
> it'd take me quite a while whereas it'd take someone smarter very little
> time, I suspect. libconcord is one of those things which does one job
> which nothing else does; it talks to Logitech Harmony programmable
> remote controls. If we lose libconcord, we lose the ability to manage
> Harmony remotes, there's just no other way to do it (besides finding a
> Windows system). thanks! If anyone's interested I can point up exactly
> how it uses HAL (for hardware discovery, you will be unsurprised to
> learn), just poke me on or off list.

Unfortunatelly for Harmony One I'm screewed anyway... :(

R.
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