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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: waltdnes@××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:23:32
Message-Id: 20111012192517.5e0c721f@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev by Walter Dnes
1 On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:09:49 -0400
2 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > > Goodbye desktop users then.
5 > >
6 > > We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and
7 > > required udev anyway) is done through udev directly.
8 >
9 > My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. I
10 > always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask
11 > and my system continued to work just fine, thank you. Given the great
12 > HAL fiasco, the fact that HAL has been incorporated into udev is yet
13 > one more reason for dropping udev <G>.
14
15 Thanks for your insight on the topic.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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