KDE upgrades and HAL

[Donn]

> A. Starting with KDE 3.5.4 the KDE Project began changing the software
> technology they use for media notification. For example, they now
> require a newer version of libhal. That library is not compatible with
> the MEPIS/Dapper packages.
Do they explain more about the "not compatible with..." part on the Mepis 
site? I want to see why libhal is so toxic to Mepis/Dapper. 

In another post, John L. Fjellstad said:
> Linux (and Unix in general) can have multiple versions of the same
> libraries installed.  As long as the given application is tagged with
> the version it needs, the right library version will be loaded.
This tells me that libhal could be installed in two versions thus satisfying 
KDE 3.5.4^ *and* older apps needing the older libhal. Just wondering, any 
off-list links would be cool.



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