On Thursday 08 September 2011 02:27:33 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Can't you get the info You need from other sources? I mean sysfs, DBUS and so on?
Yes, but it's a pain. Additionally, as those interfaces change we would have to maintain the TDE connections to them, which would sap time and energy away from other tasks.
I have not yet decided on a course of action, but probably nothing will be done as far as replacing HAL until either someone sponsors the work or does it themselves.
I am currently writing from kdebase3 where hal has been disabled.
Only the following packages need hal as of now and I placed them in a separate repository:
kima knetworkmanager-kde3 kpowersave
All other stuff can be built without hal, otherwise the inclusion of KDE3 in the upcoming openSUSE release would be impossible.