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#1 2007-06-21 03:12:58

ravisghosh
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Is hal needed?

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 smile 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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#2 2007-06-21 03:26:47

tardo
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#3 2007-06-21 14:16:08

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Re: Is hal needed?

HAL is for DEs. For light WMs use autofs or other autmount tools


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#4 2007-06-22 01:48:37

ravisghosh
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Re: Is hal needed?

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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