All, The initial update and build of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) upcoming R14.0.0 release is complete without hal dependency. (x86_64 packages) We will need to locate server space to host initial packages for testing. See the list of completed packages here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity#Complete_packages_.28current.29 Current size requirements for the packages is 301M. If you have server space available, please contact me directly. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.