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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:29
Message-Id: 20111013141252.GU17719@denkmatte.math.ncsu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev by Walter Dnes
1 On 09:09 Wed 12 Oct 2011, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > > Goodbye desktop users then.
3 > >
4 > > We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and
5 > > required udev anyway) is done through udev directly.
6 >
7 > My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. I
8 > always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask
9 > and my system continued to work just fine, thank you. Given the great
10 > HAL fiasco, the fact that HAL has been incorporated into udev is yet one
11 > more reason for dropping udev <G>.
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13 https://www.xkcd.com/963/
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18 Thomas Kahle
19 http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>