Ubuntu likely to abandon HAL next cycle -- is this workable?

[Marcus Meissner]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:33:49AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:48:23AM +0200, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > On 05/12/2011 07:02 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > > Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > >> Udisks has regressed from the portability of HAL to being Linux-only,
> > >> what are we going to do for BSDs/Solaris/others?
> > > 
> > > Of course even if we add udisks we'll keep the HAL support around. It's
> > > necessary for backwards compatibility, which is something we take
> > > seriously, unlike Ubuntu.
> > > 
> > 
> > The distro position is that HAL has no upstream, is unmaintained, and
> > conflicts with udisks/upower to the point where stuff starts breaking
> > (eg, the battery monitor gets confused and reports you have 5% and 6
> > hours left)
> 
> The truth is more:
> 
> - HAL upstream is the same as udisk upstream
> - HAL was abandoned in favour of udisk.

But yes, it is not in the openSUSE default anymore... So it is time
to replace .

Ciao, Marcus