[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#604793: Bug#604793: Please package newer upstream release without hal dependency

[Michael Biebl]

On 24.11.2010 12:46, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2010-11-24 at 12:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Yeah, this is very unfortunate. Afaik there have been no efforts from the
>> (k)freebsd to get applications ported. This means hal will stay around (at least
>> on kfreebsd), but I want to get it removed for Linux at least.
> 
> Well, to be honest, the fact that replacement relies on udev which is
> Linux-only doesn't help :)

To be more specific:

upower already has a freebsd backend (for stuff like xfce-power-manager)
udisks does not and is currently Linux-only.

GIO/GVFS uses udisks/g-d-u on Linux and hal on kfreebsd in Debian.
If the xfce apps use GIO they should not be concerned about how the lower layers
are implemented.

Do you have a more specific questions regarding this topic?

Michael
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