On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Maximilian Attems] > > hotkey-setup seems not ready for mass consumption, > > it recently added discover to it's dependency. > > Can you explain why adding a dependency on discover make it unfit for > mass consumption?
afais the obnixious init script is gone. so i don't care too much, but there stems the strong arg against it. > > please remove it from the corresponding tasks. > > Lenny should install fine everywhere and work *without* discover. > > Why is it important to avoid discover in Lenny? > > The discover dependency was added to hotkey-setup to solve #483200, as > it was judged to be better than adding PCI ids directly in > hotkey-setup to work around the fact that /etc/X11/xorg.conf more and > more often will not include information about the X driver used. > > When this is said, there are rumors that the task done by hotkey-setup > now can be handled by hal/dbus instead. I have not verified that this > is true, but I have seen information under /usr/share/hal/fdi/ that > make me suspect it is correct. If hal/dbus do a better job of > handling the hotkeys, hotkey-setup should be removed from Debian. hotkeys are working just fine here with latest hal and without hotkey-setup on a x61s mostly running Lenny. best regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]