Bug#488238: tasksel: hotkey-setup draggs discover in

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Maximilian Attems]
> > hotkey-setup seems not ready for mass consumption,
> > it recently added discover to it's dependency.
> 
> Can you explain why adding a dependency on discover make it unfit for
> mass consumption?

afais the obnixious init script is gone.
so i don't care too much, but there stems the strong arg against it.
 
> > please remove it from the corresponding tasks.
> > Lenny should install fine everywhere and work *without* discover.
> 
> Why is it important to avoid discover in Lenny?
> 
> The discover dependency was added to hotkey-setup to solve #483200, as
> it was judged to be better than adding PCI ids directly in
> hotkey-setup to work around the fact that /etc/X11/xorg.conf more and
> more often will not include information about the X driver used.
> 
> When this is said, there are rumors that the task done by hotkey-setup
> now can be handled by hal/dbus instead.  I have not verified that this
> is true, but I have seen information under /usr/share/hal/fdi/ that
> make me suspect it is correct.  If hal/dbus do a better job of
> handling the hotkeys, hotkey-setup should be removed from Debian.

hotkeys are working just fine here with latest hal and without
hotkey-setup on a x61s mostly running Lenny.

best regards

-- 
maks