Bug#515214: Please do not depend on HAL, or provide an alternative xserver-xorg package

2009-04-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, I wanted to add my 'vote' to this, adding HAL is a truly horrible horrible thing to do. For a lot of people HAL is a 'nasty' side of Linux userland and so far by using Debian, up until now, we have been able to avoid it. HAL is one of those things that show that although the Linux kernel

Bug#515214: Please do not depend on HAL, or provide an alternative xserver-xorg package

2009-04-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, Given that HAL is not strictly needed to run X and given that it pulls in a metric ton of crap that just doesn't behave [1], it's unfit for xserver-xorg to Depends: HAL. Please demote this dependency to a Recommends, or, if it can't be done due to upgrade concerns, please provide an alternati