Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 11 October 2008 23:40:37 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > If there's something better than ivman, or if I really should be
> > configuration HAL directly, then I'm all ears, but I do get the
> > impression that one really should be working with HAL via a front-end for
> > true ease of use
>
> I also think having software that is unmaintained or updated very seldom
> is not a good thing. I mean you lack features, bug and security fixes
> here. When I see no progress for an app that I use quite often I search
> for alternatives and get used to it.
>
> You are right hal is quite messy and it is not worth to struggle with as
> it is not developed any longer [1]. It will be replaced with
> devicekit, maybe this will be a better implementation.
[snip]
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html

This was a *very* illuminating post. Answered a lot of questions I had, like 
the one where I couldn't figure out the conceptual difference between HAL and 
udev and how they related to each other. They always appeared to overlap in 
useless ways.

Thanks for the link!

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