maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 217844] devel/gvfs

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Bug 217844: devel/gvfs
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217844



--- Description ---
Due to the wikileaks dump of Vault7, we know there is a 0-day against HALd. 
Since HALd is mostly unused on the linux side, its very unlikely that it will
get patched since most distros are using systemd now.

gvfs can build without HAL support.  I ran gvfs-lite on linux for quite a while
back in the days that I was a linux distro dev.

Should we disable hal in gvfs for this reason?	I realize that some programs
that rely on gvfs with hal will loose some functionality, so it comes down to
the issue of what's more important.  Security or Features.  

I personally side with security, but this isn't my port, so it's not my choice
to decide.