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On Saturday 11 October 2008 23:40:37 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> > If there's something better than ivman, or if I really should be |
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> > configuration HAL directly, then I'm all ears, but I do get the |
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> > impression that one really should be working with HAL via a front-end for |
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> > true ease of use |
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> I also think having software that is unmaintained or updated very seldom |
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> is not a good thing. I mean you lack features, bug and security fixes |
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> here. When I see no progress for an app that I use quite often I search |
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> for alternatives and get used to it. |
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> You are right hal is quite messy and it is not worth to struggle with as |
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> it is not developed any longer [1]. It will be replaced with |
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> devicekit, maybe this will be a better implementation. |
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> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html |
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This was a *very* illuminating post. Answered a lot of questions I had, like |
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the one where I couldn't figure out the conceptual difference between HAL and |
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udev and how they related to each other. They always appeared to overlap in |
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useless ways. |
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Thanks for the link! |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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