media-sound/banshee should depend on hal, because current releases (and also dev releases) cannot access CDs or digital audio players without it. There is a gnome bug against banshee about this, with the current status of a branch with a gio/udev backend: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612616 .
+ 05 Jul 2010; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -banshee-1.4.3.ebuild, + -banshee-1.4.3-r1.ebuild, -files/banshee-1.5.5-volume-reset-fix.patch, + -files/banshee-1.5.5-volume-slider-fix.patch, -banshee-1.6.0.ebuild, + banshee-1.6.1.ebuild: + Ensure sys-apps/hal is present until upstream bug #612616 is solved (bug + #327031 by Derek Dolney). Remove old.