I get the same thing. This is pretty silly. Why does hal depend on smartdimmer, also? This is an nVidia LCD panel tool. Surely HAL should be able to detect if it's there or not, not have it as a forced dependency. I run on VirtualBox and Intel graphics machines so smartdimmer is useless to me.
n...@spinel:/$ sudo apt-get install usb-imagewriter Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: hal hal-info libhal-storage1 libhal1 smartdimmer Suggested packages: gnome-device-manager The following NEW packages will be installed: hal hal-info libhal-storage1 libhal1 smartdimmer usb-imagewriter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649797 Title: Usb-imagewriter still depends on hal -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
