I don't really want it, but my system still has hal installed. According to equery depends, it seems that there are still two packages that unconditionally depend on hal (besides hal-info): k3b and gnome-mount.
I don't care much about gnome-mount (this is primarily a KDE system), but I definitely use K3B a lot. I don't see any use flags to change with respect to k3b, so I'm feeling I''m missing something. Help? ++ kevin