[Thunar-dev] Ubuntu, the scourge of HAL

[Paul Parsons]

> As I'm sure some of you are aware, Ubuntu 10.04 removed HAL from the boot
> process "to make it boot faster". This, as I'm sure some of you can work
> out, destroyed Thunar's automounting.

HAL is now deprecated and will likely be removed from *all* distributions.

In addition to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora are in the process of removing it.

And xorg-server-1.8 onwards will be using udev instead of HAL:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL