>>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

I just pushed a patch that should resolve the tdebindings failure.  The
hardware library split has been merged and all should be good to go for
rebuilding at this time.

Tim