Status of HAL

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/10/2009 08:43 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, November 9, 2009 1:28 pm, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> - It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been
> >>   frozen and deprecated
> > 
> > Okay, I really can't keep up with Linux development these days.  What has
> > replaced HAL?
> 
> It hasn't yet but DeviceKit will over a period of time.

You can't keep up either :-) 

There is no DeviceKit package anymore; the central role has been taken
over by udev, mostly. And then there are subsystem-specific services,
like DeviceKit-disks, DeviceKit-power, NetworkManager, etc.