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I had put hal in rc.conf and what it does is mounts cd's when they are inserted. I could not find any other use of hal visible to me thoug i'm partly blind as i dont have technical vision Even after it has mounted cd's, I still need to enter cd using a file manager like rox or thunar before programs can use files from cd, like sonata to play music. Then with hal disabled, I can still enter cd from rox and get it mounted automatically and also save some memory used by hal. Am I wrong, are there other uses of hal that i am unaware of. Wiki did not make much sense to me.
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HAL is for DEs. For light WMs use autofs or other autmount tools
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From the above link, what i can make out is that hal does a lot of things other (dont ask me what) than just mounting cd's. Given that, can autofs, etc., replace hal.
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