What is the situation regarding removing HAL from the ubuntu family?
I see long discussions about it, but nothing actually useful or conclusive.
As I won't be doing any "clean installs" anytime soon, I will need to know when it is safe to remove it from the existing system. As an experiment, I did a dry run in maverick:
Well, that's ugly.
The xfce stuff I understand -- the newest xfce, just released today (17 Jan 2011) no longer depends on HAL, but that probably hasn't hit the repositories yet. But k3b-extracodecs? And GIMP? No can do, sorry.
I see long discussions about it, but nothing actually useful or conclusive.
As I won't be doing any "clean installs" anytime soon, I will need to know when it is safe to remove it from the existing system. As an experiment, I did a dry run in maverick:
Code:
greenman@Wolfenstein:~$ apt-show-versions | grep hal hal/maverick uptodate 0.5.14-0ubuntu6 hal-cups-utils/maverick uptodate 1.2.3+20100723-0ubuntu8.1 hal-info/maverick uptodate 20091130-1 libhal-storage1/maverick uptodate 0.5.14-0ubuntu6 libhal1/maverick uptodate 0.5.14-0ubuntu6 libkephal4/maverick uptodate 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1ppa1 pulseaudio-module-hal 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 installed: No available version in archive pulseaudio-module-hal-dbg 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 installed: No available version in archive greenman@Wolfenstein:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge hal hal-cups-utils hal-info libhal-storage1 libhal1 [sudo] password for greenman: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libgnomescan-common xfce4-screenshooter libtinyxml2.5.3 libcpufreq0 libpano13-bin libxbae4 hugin-data tesseract-ocr-deu xfce4-notes mousepad desktop-base xfce4-artwork libpano13-1 libtuxcap1 libgnomescan0 libpulsecore9 libgdiplus hugin-tools Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: exo-utils* flegita-gimp* gimp* gimp-gap* gimp-gluas* gimp-gmic* gimp-gutenprint* gimp-resynthesizer* gimp-save-for-web* gimp-texturize* gimp-ufraw* gtkam-gimp* hal* hal-cups-utils* hal-info* hwinfo* kubuntu-desktop* libexo-0.3-0* libhal-storage1* libhal1* libhd16* libk3b2-extracodecs* libk3b3* libk3b3-extracodecs* libnautilus-burn4* libthunar-vfs-1-2* mountmanager* orage* oxine* pandora* pmount* pulseaudio-module-hal* pulseaudio-module-hal-dbg* python-nautilusburn* ristretto* squeeze* thunar* thunar-archive-plugin* thunar-media-tags-plugin* thunar-volman* xfburn* xfce4* xfce4-appfinder* xfce4-battery-plugin* xfce4-cddrive-plugin* xfce4-clipman* xfce4-clipman-plugin* xfce4-cpu-freq-plugin* xfce4-cpufreq-plugin* xfce4-cpugraph-plugin* xfce4-datetime-plugin* xfce4-dict* xfce4-diskperf-plugin* xfce4-fsguard-plugin* xfce4-genmon-plugin* xfce4-goodies* xfce4-mailwatch-plugin* xfce4-messenger-plugin* xfce4-mixer* xfce4-mount-plugin* xfce4-netload-plugin* xfce4-notes-plugin* xfce4-panel* xfce4-places-plugin* xfce4-power-manager* xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin* xfce4-sensors-plugin* xfce4-session* xfce4-settings* xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin* xfce4-smartpm-plugin* xfce4-systemload-plugin* xfce4-terminal* xfce4-time-out-plugin* xfce4-timer-plugin* xfce4-utils* xfce4-verve-plugin* xfce4-volstatus-icon* xfce4-wavelan-plugin* xfce4-weather-plugin* xfce4-xfapplet-plugin* xfce4-xkb-plugin* xfdesktop4* xfmedia* xprint* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 85 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 97.9MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort.
The xfce stuff I understand -- the newest xfce, just released today (17 Jan 2011) no longer depends on HAL, but that probably hasn't hit the repositories yet. But k3b-extracodecs? And GIMP? No can do, sorry.
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