Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore
Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net> writes:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> Nobody forces you to do anything. You can compile patch X.org yourself,
>> run oldstable, switch to another distribution or throw your computer out
>> of the window. Or you could just accept HAL and go on with your life.
>
> You suggest that everyone compiles X11 him-/herself now?
>
> To downgrade or to even switch whole distributions because of a single
> stubborn package maintainer?
X.org is maintained by a team of developers, and its usage of HAL has
been discussed on the general developers' mailing list. There is no
single maintainer acting alone, and if there were a consensus that X's
dependency on HAL is as bad as you say (which there isn't), the
technical committee could overrule them anyway.
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Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
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