Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info?

[Martin Pitt]

Zhu, Peter J [2009-12-16 23:06 +0800]:
> I surely understand the three files are for HAL. I'm thinking of
> remove HAL totally from a distribution. TO make this possible, it's
> a must to remove hal-info so I'm taking a look at all files in
> hal-info. These three files should be related to storage device
> processing so I'm guessing if it's covered by DeviceKit-disks but
> not sure.

DK-Disks and hal are independent of each other and provide services to
applications. DK-Disks doesn't need the fdi files, but of course it
might well be that some of your installed programs need HAL. For
example, current KDE uses hal, and a lot of applications (see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy for an incomplete list)

Martin
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