Re: pulseaudio 4.0 requires udev was: Re: Help for PR kern/46606 is needed

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:04:05PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 > > It fails with the following errors (from firefox and mplayer).
 > > I feel pulseaudio 4.0 may not work on NetBSD.
 > > According to
 > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/3.0/
 > > 
 > >   Support for HAL has been removed. This shouldn't affect anyone,
 > >   but if it does, please configure PulseAudio to use udev instead.
 > >   module-hal-detect still exists for maintaining configuration file
 > >   compatibility, but all it does is to load module-udev-detect.
 > >   module-hal-detect may get completely removed in 4.0.
 > > 
 > > udev is required.
 > > NetBSD has no udev.
 > 
 > So they've finally dropped BSD support. It only remains interesting what
 > components are next in line.

HAL isn't exactly BSD support. What does it use udev for?

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