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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna |
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>>> eat your cat. |
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>> Although it may kill your crew. |
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> I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think that |
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> they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automounting |
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> working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X. And if you |
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> disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working. |
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E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id. |
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I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble. |
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But I kept HAL because it's very useful. |
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