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