Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[Aaron Clark <ophidian@ophidian.homeip.net>]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I
>>> don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if
>>> at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's
>>> design is a mish- mash of stuff throwwn together. At least, that's what
>>> the lead hal dev says
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit#Dependencies
>>
>> I haven't looked into this in any depth but it seems like Devicekit will
>> not be an improvement (looks like it brings in the "kitchen sink" in
>> dependencies - I'm also "allergic" to gnome)...
> 
> in my opinion a 'solution' that is based on the worst desktop (gnome) is the 
> worst possible 'solution'. What about kde users? what about xfce? fluxbox? 
> enlightenment users?
> 
> Fedora screws everybody over. Like always. 
> 

Um... that dependencies list is the dependencies for the feature to get 
done for Fedora.  I would be shocked if the HAL replacement is dependent 
on Nautilus.

Honestly, most of the libraries on that list are stuff likely already in 
the LSB (which btw includes both gnome stuff as well as Qt and Phonon) 
so while it may not be in your system it's not crazy to depend on.  Tone 
down the Gnome/Fedora hate.

Aaron