Bug#515214: hal for Recommends: , not Depends:

[Sergey Korobitsin <undertaker@arta.kz>]

I support demoting hal to Recommends. The reason is that Debian was
always the most flexible solution among the binary-based distros for me,
and if we can install less packages to get nessesary functionality, we
better install less. I've read the discussion and I think that using
workaround like equivs is not good, because equivs is usually used in very
special cases. Also, adding a xserver-xorg-nohal may cause unnessesary
maintaing issues. The solution in Subject is the most painless, I think.

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Best regards, Sergey Korobitsin
Arta Software, Astana, KZ
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