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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:12:52 -0400
From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
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On 09:09 Wed 12 Oct 2011, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > Goodbye desktop users then.
> >=20
> > We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and
> > required udev anyway) is done through udev directly.
>=20
>   My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you.  I
> always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask
> and my system continued to work just fine, thank you.  Given the great
> HAL fiasco, the fact that HAL has been incorporated into udev is yet one
> more reason for dropping udev <G>.

https://www.xkcd.com/963/



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Thomas Kahle
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