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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place? =C2=A0It's not gon=
na
>>> eat your cat.
>>
>> Although it may kill your crew.
>
> I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. =C2=A0They thin=
k that
> they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automountin=
g
> working. =C2=A0But that's wrong. =C2=A0Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X.=
 =C2=A0And if you
> disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working.
>
>

E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id.

I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble.
But I kept HAL because it's very useful.