On Friday 09 September 2011 22:03:56 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> >> Yes but it bars inclusion of Trinity into distributions.
> >>
> >
> > Hal is only unsupported because it is unmaintained. If it was maintained,
> > why would distributions not want to include it?
> >
> 
> I do NOT want to maintain HAL.  We do not have the resources to do that. 
> HAL requires continual updates to work with new hardware.
> 
> It would be far easier to simply implement the libraries that I keep
> mentioning.  The problem is that replacing HAL (which is easier than
> maintaining it) is still quite resource intensive.

I have just tested... Hybernation and suspension both to disk and to RAM works
well without hal (both from the KDE menu). Auto-mounting also works well 
(if you implement it with udev rules you do not need any additional services running). 
K3B works well and auto-detects the media. Ejecting CD-ROM works well.

What else should hal do?