> 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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