On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 20 Jan 2011 21:29:03 +0100, a écrit :It would be nice to know how non-Linux ports (not limited to Debian ones) are seeing the future. Keep on maintaining hal forever?Well, what are the other alternatives? Moving to the linuxish udev? Inventing yet another daemon?
One of the comments on http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors is from Warner Losh (imp@freebsd.org), implying that it might be possible to convince devd to output udev-style data streams, if only what that data should look like was well documented.
-Ben Kaduk