http://blogs.gentoo.org/lu_zero?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:24:55 +0000 LukenShiro [Visitor] c21068@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ Sorry if I answer to a somewhat old post<br /> I absolutely concur with your point of view.<br /> HAL is complicated and not really useful, it's a brain-dead back step.<br /> A good bunch of udev's rules could maybe be used without any difficulty to provide most of hal functions (e.g. mounting); the remaining ones maybe doesn't serve ...<br /> <br /> P.S. An example I've noticed is the custom configuration for Xorg's keyboard and mouse with hal: it's such a mess and plain ugly.<br /> xorg.conf's input devices section was indeed simple in comparison to un-explicable xml in <br /> /etc/hal/fdi/policy.<br /> I absolutely concur with your point of view.
HAL is complicated and not really useful, it's a brain-dead back step.
A good bunch of udev's rules could maybe be used without any difficulty to provide most of hal functions (e.g. mounting); the remaining ones maybe doesn't serve ...

P.S. An example I've noticed is the custom configuration for Xorg's keyboard and mouse with hal: it's such a mess and plain ugly.
xorg.conf's input devices section was indeed simple in comparison to un-explicable xml in
/etc/hal/fdi/policy.
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