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On 2011-10-07, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> In the end, udev was making huge advances, and HAL could not keep up |
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> simply because the other Operating Systems didn't have similar |
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> capabilities, so the consumers of HAL (desktop systems, mostly) |
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> started to use udev directly. That was when the shit hit the fan: if |
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> the purpose of HAL was to mantain "portability", but the biggest and |
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> most active developer community (Linux) refused to use it since it |
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> didn't allowed them to use the full capabilities of the operating |
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> system, then it had (literally) no reason to live. So the HAL |
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> mantainers saw the error of their ways, and they deprecated it, |
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> saying to the user space developers that, in Linux, they should use |
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> udev, and in other Operating Systems whatever was equivalent, if any. |
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> It was really fast, if I remember correctly: one day half the |
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> programs in my computers used HAL, and the next every single one of |
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> them stopped using it. In Gentoo in particular was pretty rough, |
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> since the X.org version that used HAL had just become stable (which |
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> was kinda difficult to transition to), and next thing you know, you |
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> again had to transition, this time to a HAL-free X.org. A lot of |
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> users got really angry in Gentoo because of that. |
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Some of us grumpy-old-guy types refused to play nice and didn't make |
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either transition. We disabled HAL support in X.org [after X.org had |
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stopped working when HAL became the default]. Once we had HAL |
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disabled, we continued to to use the trusty old xorg.conf file until |
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the whole HAL thing blew over. |
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I'm going to ignore grub2 for as long as I can, but I don't think it's |
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going away the way HAL did... ;) |
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at FOOD ... and then I want to |
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