On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

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

I learned about another link with details on what is needed for NetBSD and 
for pkgsrc:

http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html#hal

> 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