On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:44:06PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
I am a bit frustrated that we got pushed hal for years as the final solution and now with a snip of finger and without compatibility that is replaced by a new solution, and 6 months later again by a new solution. (oh, and it is not a full replacement, that is being still worked on (media polling)).
The upstream developers gave lots of warning that this was going to happen, and offered help. As far as media polling, I don't know, but I'd be surprised if something didn't provide that as Gnome works without HAL properly.
Wine e.g. is still in a wait-and-see position on what will happen and probably will still ship HAL support in its upcoming 1.2 release.
The xorg developers went over the same stages of grief and complaints about loosing HAL, but in the end, their codebase got a lot smaller and worked better by just using libudev instead of HAL, and they were happier. So perhaps Wine will get there too :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org