I know it's hard masked but it needs hal-0.5.7 (I'm tring simple rename hal-0.5.6 from breakmygentoo.org).
Created attachment 82402 [details] sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.7.ebuild Switch off all patches
we know, our 0.5.7 will be in soon.
a masked version of hal went in the tree today. thanks!