On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote:
> I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my
> SGI Indy with a superb SGI Monitor and US keyboard (brackets and
> braces at the right places) to have up to 6 xterms onscreen; the
> machine is too slow to do real work. I didn't yet recover far enough
> to know for certain, but planning to run current sid on that box you
> might hear my curses over the ocean when I find out I have to run HAL
> or use ancient X.
In case you didn't hear me:
ARRRRRGS THIS @#%$§*@ XORG STUFF NOT ONLY DEPENDS ON HAL, moreover
HAL forces me to install usbutils. USB 1.0 specs were released
one year after this fine box was built!
> > To me, the freedom is still there. I now have the freedom of either
> > removing it or leaving it. The choice is still mine.
>
> We'll see, my choices are: current X, no HAL.
Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to
run otherwise unused SW?
no thanks
Siggy
going to pin X to stable <grrrrr>.
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