Why is HAL being made the default when it's not ready?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 17:59 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Well, hal does what it's supposed to do - xorg isn't quite capable of
> using hal, though.

I#m not an expert on this by any means, but that's not how I read the
bug comments, I'm particularly referring to [1], though I have no idea
if it is correct

[1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wacom-tools/+bug/282203/comments/2