From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QvwuS-0000rx-GA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:45:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3631D21C044; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741C521C044 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so498239wyg.40 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:43:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=j3uRfO0S+angjCeCMhmhA6U+pDC8/TDoQttl916hagA=; b=HoivcHLPCYVSOK0Isw3zG9GviLOBi7awG6rPpFsUiy5Chp2G/+o1LA3t7TicO4m07V thg4DaoVlFMw3DNmNsdmuJnYckepfEEeq6R1vfeTFbb9nOCS5SoRZqvUC4akeujXYdYV eJYcGxdN81mkZaUFpCiPUSsseeXlV2ReRo0lE= Received: by 10.216.166.75 with SMTP id f53mr1038280wel.55.1314128636695; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm246603wbx.0.2011.08.23.12.43.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:43:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:43:48 +0200 Message-ID: <10047113.P4fhB6gBS3@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/3.0.3-gentoo; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4E4C2CC4.6080604@xunil.at> <3706961.X6WvuNeq9m@nazgul> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 33f9d468db938401c530e5ca21ffd111 On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s did opine = thusly: > > Now if it had similarities to say hal, I would instantly > > understand. But dbus is good and useful in all the ways that > > hal isn't. > Wasn't. HAL is dead. From > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal Sadly, HAL is not yet dead. It lives still. It lives on the production database server I just happen to be=20 rebooting as I type this (another story for another time) and will=20 continue to live here for a very very long time indeed. Dale can confirm this. Dale will swear in a court of law with hand on=20= bible than hal lives on in zombie form, infesting all the matter of=20 his house and computers, infecting them with their undead zombieness. Ye gods, it's been a long hard day.... --=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com