Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/01/10 23:10, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 08:46 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
>   
> > On 11/01/10 08:39, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Why is HAL being removed?
> > >       
> > Future Development of "hal" has been stopped.
> >     
> Right, there is no future release planned. The project is dead and the
> functionality replaced by a bunch of other projects.
>
>   
> > > What is replacing it?
> > >       
> > udev-extras (merge between DeviceKit and udev)
> >     
> There is no udev-extras. It was a temporary solution and no such package
> exists anymore. The hotplug event distribution is handled by the
> standard udev daemon and libudev.
>
> Individual subsystem-services like udisks, upower (formerly
> Devicekit-*), NetworkManager, PulseAudio, ..., connect over libudev to
> kernel device events and handle the domain-specific problems.
>   

Oh no, no! Not yet another "you-don't-know-what-I-know" situation! :'(

Please, people, get the story right so that Karsten doesn't accuse you
of FUD and whatever else :-( .


> Thanks,
> Kay
>   
Pretty please,

BC

-- 
Take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face.

                         W C Fields


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