>I would expect that two systems would be needed--one with HAL but 
>not upower etc.) and one with upower and friends (but not HAL).

I don't have an older build system with HAL.

>I am somewhat concerned about cluttering up the tdehwlib files 
>with
>conditionals and such, however this may not be an issue once the 
>source
>files are split into smaller chunks (e.g. Fat-Zer's work).
>
>On a related note, please do not commit any patches to tdehwlib 
>right now
>as I am in the process of merging Fat-Zer's splitting of the 
>source files.

Hmm, all of these changes sound like "Stop the presses!" Please 
post when the tdehwlib merges and tdebindings/libtqt-perl fixes are 
complete. Seems otherwise things will break when attempting to 
compile. :-)

Darrell