Re: RFC: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Jessie
On 31/01/2014 22:44, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> 1. Some application-level software is growing hard dependencies on SystemD
>> or other Linux-specific components (e.g. X->udev, gdm3->systemd).
>
> X->udev is utterly wrong.
Ehm, sorry. Bad choice of words. What I meant to say is that X moved from HAL
to udev on Linux, leaving other ports stuck with an abandoned codebase (HAL).
> HAL isn't maintained, true. But I proposed a
> plan to migrate away from HAL to another system allowing for hotplug[1],
> and nobody picked it up. That doesn't mean that X is moving to udev-only.
>
> 1. https://lists.debian.org/20110213124019.GH7840@debian.org
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/02/msg00173.html
> [ Yes, that was 3 (three) years ago. ]
See the mail I just sent (X with devd backend).
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Robert Millan
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