about pmount and R14 new backends

Hello, I've seen that the "pmount" utility is used in TDE R14 for removable devices. I've also seen that this utility is NOT provided at all in some distributions, e.g. Mageia 3. Questions: 1) If pmount does not exist, is there any alternative in TDE R14 to mount/umount devices ? (I'd say no, because I have an error message saying pmount was not found) 2) This utility looks like it is not maintained anymore upstream. I've built 0.9.99-alpha, and it works but needs some patches. Could we import into our Git to have our own "TDE-certified" pmount utility ? 3) Could'nt udisks2 do the same as pmount ? And some more questions about R14 new features ... 1) Is HAL/Halbackend code still entirely present ? (for old distro NOT having udisks, upower, etc ... but having HAL out of the box) 2) Do we have a summary of "what libraries are used for" in tdelibs/tdebase ? For example, if I build with "udisks" but no "udisks2" support, what feature will I lose exactly ? And what alternatives do I have ? Up to 3.5.13.x, the situation seemed clear: without HAL, there was no alternative :-) Thanks Francois