HAL gone in Saucy, now what?

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What makes links like /dev/sr0 to such things as /dev/dvd now? HAL used to
> and since I did the upgrade, I still have all those HAL rules. /dev/cdrom is
> created as a symlink to /dev/sr0, but not /dev/cdrw dev/dvd nor /dev/dvdrw
> Is all the HAL stuff to be erased? Inquiring minds would like to know and
> I'm scared! And, what takes it's place?

HAL hasn't done this for a long time:

# grep -v '#' /etc/udev/rules.d70-persistent-cd.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvd",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"