Dirk <noi...@gmx.net> writes: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Nobody forces you to do anything. You can compile patch X.org yourself, >> run oldstable, switch to another distribution or throw your computer out >> of the window. Or you could just accept HAL and go on with your life. > > You suggest that everyone compiles X11 him-/herself now? > > To downgrade or to even switch whole distributions because of a single > stubborn package maintainer?
X.org is maintained by a team of developers, and its usage of HAL has been discussed on the general developers' mailing list. There is no single maintainer acting alone, and if there were a consensus that X's dependency on HAL is as bad as you say (which there isn't), the technical committee could overrule them anyway. -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
