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! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
