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Feature changed by: Luis Medinas (lmedinas)
Feature #308762, revision 7
  Title: Remove Hal by default on opensuse 11.3
   
  openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Luis Medinas (lmedinas)
   
Description:
  Hal is deprecated and now most applications now use udev and devicekit-
  * (will be udisks). Now it's important to remove HAL because it will
  speed boot process and of course because it's not moving upstream.
  This pages show packages status from Fedora and Ubuntu.
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy
   
  Discussion:
  #1: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-01-18 09:43:33) 
  Let's first evaluate which packages need hal and change the openSUSE
  packages. I'm aware of "hwinfo".
   
  #2: Steffen Winterfeldt (snwint) (2010-01-18 12:02:40) 
  hwinfo works fine without hal. I think.
  But libzypp relies on hal.
   
+ #3: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2010-01-18 14:36:26) 
+ According to the Yast team it still needs hal for automounting[1]. I
+ think this shouldn't be hard to replace.
+ Xorg git master doesn't depend of hal anymore i guess it should be an
+ easy task for the Xorg team to provide X without Hal. Gnome has already
+ removed Hal on 2.29 but i don't have any idea how KDE goes.
+ Firefox 3.6 still depends of gnome-vfs (which is deprecated) but i
+ asked Wolfgang to see if he can patch firefox to now depend of it. I
+ guess Openoffice.org doesn't depend anymore on gnome-vfs.
+  
+ [1] - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-01/msg00101.html
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/308762