Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

[Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net>]

Jochen Schulz wrote:
> 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
> 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.

and the replies, nitpicking and bullshitting already took more place,
energy and time than turning hal from a dependency back into a
recommended package...