Comment 9 for bug 480704

I don't fully understand this bit:

-Suggests: hal
+Recommends: hal

Isn't hal instlaled by default anyway? In karmic, without hal you would not even get X up and running, after all. Also, it won't change anything if the hal package is installed, but hald is not running (it might have crashed, or people might simply stop it). What was the actual intent of this?