Sander Lepik <sander.le...@eesti.ee> writes: > 25.09.2012 01:17, blino kirjutas: >> Name : task-obsolete Relocations: (not relocatable) >> Version : 3 Vendor: Mageia.Org >> Release : 27.mga3 Build Date: Tue Sep 25 00:12:29 >> 2012 >> >> >> blino <blino> 3-27.mga3: >> + Revision: 297306 >> - obsolete policykit, replaced by polkit >> - obsolete hal and hal-info, replaced by udisks and later by udisks2 > I would question obsoleting hal here. Is there a serious reason to do > that? What if there are 3rd party packages that still need it? Or > isn't it working at all on mga3? If it still works i wouldn't obsolete > it that way.
hal removal has been discussed here a few weeks go and got no objections: https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-July/017430.html hal has been first replaced by DeviceKit, which has then been replaced by udev + udisks, the later being again replaced by udisks2. We are many architecture cycles away from hal already. Fedora removed it one year ago already: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval Do you have any example of such thirdparty software using it? See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_%28software%29#Deprecated -- Olivier Blin - blino