KDE upgrades and HAL

[Nathan Eckenrode]

On Monday 29 January 2007 02:22:54 pm Donn wrote:
> > 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.
>
Here is a major strength of Free/Open Source Software, you can find out by 
looking right there in the source for both.
:-)
> 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.
>
Something tells me that its not nearly as simple as that, otherwise the 
maintainers would have done it already.
>
>
> /d