get rid of acpid and provide /var/run/acpid.socket by the hald-acpi-addon

[Kay Sievers]

With the upcoming ACPI module autoloading, the ACPI sysfs representatin
and events, the ACPI events passed to the input layer, and the HAL
support for the events, it's time to get rid of the acpid daemon. 

The attached patch implements the multiplexer logic of acpid in the hal
ACPI addon. That way, distros who care, can optionally get rid of the
acpid daemon, and still provide the events for tools who still depend on
it, as long as needed.

If HAL is compiled with the support to listen directly to the kernel
events and acpid is not running during HAL startup, HAL will open the
kernel events interface and multiplex the events to listeners at the
/var.run/acpid.socket, just like acpid was doing it.

Thanks,
Kay


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