wblock@
Developer
Lots of people hate HAL. I don't, but it's recently become useless due to changes in my preferred window manager, xfce. So out it goes.
There are two problems.
1. devel/gvfs depends on HAL. So I submitted PR ports/157096 to make the dependency on HAL optional.
2. x11-wm/xfce4-session also depends on HAL. For that, I submitted PR ports/157097.
Both PRs have been committed, and HAL has been absent for several weeks now without any problems.
will show other ports that depend on HAL. If they have a HAL config option, turn it off. Then rebuild them. After all such dependencies are removed, pkg_delete(1) HAL itself.
I have not tested other desktop environments, which might have more dependencies on HAL.
There are two problems.
1. devel/gvfs depends on HAL. So I submitted PR ports/157096 to make the dependency on HAL optional.
2. x11-wm/xfce4-session also depends on HAL. For that, I submitted PR ports/157097.
Both PRs have been committed, and HAL has been absent for several weeks now without any problems.
% pkg_info -R hal-\*
will show other ports that depend on HAL. If they have a HAL config option, turn it off. Then rebuild them. After all such dependencies are removed, pkg_delete(1) HAL itself.
I have not tested other desktop environments, which might have more dependencies on HAL.