On Thursday 08 September 2011 01:24:51 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> OK.  I should mention that HAL's replacements (DeviceKit and its pieces)
> are more limited than HAL.  This impacts Trinity, as one of its design
> goals is to expose as much useful information to the user as possible. 
> Currently we strongly recommend to use HAL when possible, as there is no
> direct replacement for it under Linux at this time.

This can potentially bar you from inclusion of Trinity in distributions.