Safe to disable HAL?

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:45 -0500, Jared Sutton wrote:
> I'm helping manage the Computer Science lab at a private University. 
> We're dual-booting FC4/WinXP on all of the workstations, and upon 
> upgrading to KDE 3.5 over the Christmas holiday, we found that KDE now 
> auto-detects USB mass-storage devices that are plugged in, and mounts 
> them.  We've had a system set up for this very thing, and we don't 
> really have a need to change it (when it works well, why change?), so 
> we'd like to disable this new action for all users.  I've discovered the 
> easiest way to do this is to disable the haldaemon service in FC4.  I 
> just wanted to make sure that disabling this service won't upset any 
> other delicate processes in Fedora.  However, there isn't a whole lot of 
> info about HAL scattered about the net.  Anyone have any thoughts?

I don't think much else than storage management and NetworkManager in
FC4 depends on HAL. In FC5 power management will depend on it too.

HTH,
David