On 31/01/2014 22:44, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> 1. Some application-level software is growing hard dependencies on SystemD
>> or other Linux-specific components (e.g. X->udev, gdm3->systemd).
> 
> X->udev is utterly wrong.

Ehm, sorry. Bad choice of words. What I meant to say is that X moved from HAL
to udev on Linux, leaving other ports stuck with an abandoned codebase (HAL).

> HAL isn't maintained, true. But I proposed a
> plan to migrate away from HAL to another system allowing for hotplug[1],
> and nobody picked it up. That doesn't mean that X is moving to udev-only.
> 
>  1. https://lists.debian.org/20110213124019.gh7...@debian.org
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/02/msg00173.html
>     [ Yes, that was 3 (three) years ago. ]

See the mail I just sent (X with devd backend).

-- 
Robert Millan


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ec449b.9050...@debian.org

Reply via email to