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hal-info is just a small hal package that provides hardware data and quirks.
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These quirks are currently things like what mice support reporting battery
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status, what music players are supported and what cameras are detected.
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This could also include a list of display adaptors that need resuming or a
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list of broken batteries that might explode.
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Why split the information data from the main tarball?
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Well, policy and probing information is still in the daemon package where
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they belong. Hal is released every few months with updated dependencies and
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lots of snazzy new features. Users love this, stable distributions hate it,
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and don't update HAL, missing the newest hardware quirk updates. This means
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that new hardware often won't work out of the box until the next version of
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the distro is released.
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For example, stable distro 'x' ships HAL 0.5.9 with no intention of updating
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it other than for security fixes. Stable distro 'x' does however update from
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hal-info-20070516 to hal-info-{date} as there are no new features, minimal risk
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of breaking, and lots of chance that more hardware that didn't work now will.
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