John Hasler wrote:
Thorny writes:Well, complaining here will probably not do much for you either, even though you have now identified your version. You might want to try a developers list rather than a users one. Of course, they might not like the way you explain your complaint.File a bug against xserver-xorg and firmly but _politely_ explain your objection.
someone already did... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515214and the replies, nitpicking and bullshitting already took more place, energy and time than turning hal from a dependency back into a recommended package...
and i just found out that ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't work anymore without hal... despite the... Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"hal is such a cancerous piece of crap that it would be interesting to know in what companies the hal developers spend their working time... and in what companies the xorg and had debian package maintainers spend their working time...
Dirk