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A bit of research has shown hal is pretty optional. Many people have compiled their systems without it.

The solution turned out to be passing the --disable-hal flag to the compile job.

With Gentoo this was achieved by

I have just upgraded to KDE 3.5 which, through dependancies, meant an upgrade to HAL-0.5.5.1 and DBUS-0.50 as well. Now when I start VLC-0.8.4 I get the error: "vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libhal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" There is no li...