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Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal



Dirk:
> John Hasler wrote:
>> 
>> 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=515214
> 
> and the replies, nitpicking and bullshitting already took more place,  
> energy and time than turning hal from a dependency back into a  
> recommended package...

Well, the first messages in this bug report weren't very polite
either...

> and i just found out that ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't work anymore without
> hal... despite the...
> 
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"

If you had spent some time reading TFM instead of insulting developers
you would have found out that this change is completely unrelated to
hal. You are making yourself ridiculous.

> 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...

You are free to help with the enormous task of maintaining X.Org in
Debian. Before you can do that, you need to acquire some manners,
though. You current attitude will not help your case.

J.
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