I don't know much about HAL, but I understand it is useful.

hal is in pkgsrc-wip at http://pkgsrc.se/wip/hal

Maybe we can start with it.

Info about HAL is at
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fHalFAQ
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal

FreeBSD's GNOME and KDE use hal:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19
http://freebsd.kde.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/newsflash.html (HAL ported to FreeBSD)

Can anyone help with this for pkgsrc? for NetBSD?

  Jeremy C. Reed