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.