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>. -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de or: bsb-at-psycho-dot-i21k-dot-de O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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