[Bugs] #617 UNSP: volume (disk) device: get rid of HAL (was: volume (disk) device: fail gracefully if hald is not running)

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#617: volume (disk) device: get rid of HAL
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    Reporter:  sascha_silbe               |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Git as of bugdate          
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  New                        
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Changes (by sascha_silbe):

  * priority:  Low => Unspecified by Maintainer
  * severity:  Minor => Unspecified
  * milestone:  0.86 => Unspecified by Release Team


Comment:

 HAL was just uninstalled again on my XO-1 because nothing except Sugar
 depends on it anymore. Everyone else is moving away from it; we should
 swim with the stream to avoid maintenance overhead. ;)
 devicekit-disks is used by Gnome, so it looks like the way to go.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/617#comment:2>
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