Le 06/08/2013 23:28, Jim Diamond a écrit :

All:

I wonder about the benefit of integrating and testing HAL, as opposed
to dropping it like a rock.  Are any major distros still using it?  I
realize that it is not nice to abandon people who have to stick with
old distros, but given the (apparently) small amount of people
actively working on Trinity (thanks to all of you!), I'd suggest the
bang for the buck is not worth it.

For me, the only reason I'd be using an older distro at this point
would be if I wanted KDE 3.  (I realize other peoples' mileage varies,
but...)  And if TDE worked on the newer version of my distro, I'd be a
happy camper.

Cheers.

                        Jim

Hello,
The 2 current supported versions of RedHat Enterprise Linux (5 and 6) are both provided with a working (and mandatory) HAL daemon, but do not support udisks, upower, and other recent stuff ..

So, TDE R14 can provide the mount/umount features with the small pmount utility, but what about the power options ?

We must not neglect this kind of distributions, because precisely they ship with old versions of KDE3 / early KDE4 /old Gnome2, so Trinity is a very serious alternative.

The meaning of the original question was more precisely:
If I build -DWITH_UPOWER=NO -DWITH_UDISKS=NO -DWITH_UDISKS2=NO , what won't work in the end ?

If there is no alternative, I will have to build HAL support for these distributions in R14. So please do not drop it now :-)

Francois