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Re: Re: RFC: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Jessie



> Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> (2014-01-31):
>> -release asked us to discuss a possible solution among ourselves so we can
>> propose it to them. But the problem is not clearly defined yet. So I thought
>> maybe we can do some progress by discussing what the problem is.
>> 
>> Here's what I think of as a problems that may need to be fixed by reaching
>> an agreement with -release:
>> 
>> 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. 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. ]


http://freebsdnow.blogspot.de/2013/09/cft-update-of-xorg-libraries-and-mesa.html

Apparently patches do exist now for using devd on kfreebsd. I don't feel
qualified to review them, but if you think they address the issues
sufficiently, would it be possible to test them in Debian maybe with an
upload to experimental and a CFT?

Michael

/me would still like to get rid of hal some day.
-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

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