>I don't know enough yet about why Amazon's DRM regime requires libhal >and
>hal. A bit of googling on the train this morning suggests that Adobe flash
>player (the old unsupported one) needs it for some reason. I'm not sure
>why, though--I looked at the symbol table and linkage tables of the
>libflashplayer.so library, and didn't see any references to libhal or even
>dbus.

>Again, my main goal with vdev is udev compatibility, not necessarily hal
>compatibility. If the requisite functions from hal made it into udev, then
>it would be something I would work on as part of vdev's release. If not,
>then it's outside my scope, and would be a separate project.

>In the mean time, it looks like someone else has done the legwork to make
>hal installable without breaking the things that replaced it:
>https://launchpad.net/~mjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal
<https://launchpad.net/%7Emjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal>

>Hope this helps,
>-Jude

Thanks for your help Jude! I am sorry to distract you from your work on
vdev with this. It was my mistake not realizing that it was part of the
flash player and not udev. The Hal Debian wiki got me thinking it was udev
and I did not search it out more than that.

Thanks, and keep up the good work on vdev!