Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 18:26 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : >>>> Second, you can very easily disable this behaviour: man hal-disable-polling >>> Great, but it's still not the default behaviour. Does every >>> user need to find out how to disable it after they become sufficiently >>> annoyed by the constant spinning up of their CD drive? >> Why should *every* user need to find out? Seems to me as if you are >> exaggerating >> in order to make a point. For the majority of users it just works, that's >> why it >> is the default. > > Why not introduce a FDI that disables polling for drives that are known > to be broken? >
You mean like /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/no-cd-media-check.fdi and the note in README.Debian? My feeling is, that whatever we do, some people will still complain. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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