David, GARNOME is a framework for building the GNOME desktop and an assortment of GNOME "extras" using existing source tarballs If a source tarball exists for libvolume_id, GARNOME will use it. If a source tarball for libvolume_id does not exist, GARNOME cannot update HAL past version 0.5.7.1.
-Joseph ======================================================================= On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 20:54 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 20:34 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > > The hal/udev dependencies need to be resolved before moving on to > > hal-0.5.8.x > > Joseph, I have several times asked you in private mails we've exchanged, > why GARNOME cannot pull in the udev tarball for libvolume_id if you want > to build HAL. I have even Cc'ed the udev maintainer if you had requests > for changes in udev to make this easier for you. You have not come up > with any concrete complaints. I am again Cc'ing Kay so he can help > explain things if you have questions. > > I've said it before and I'll say it again: I am not going to carry > libvolume_id in the HAL tarball until damn good reasons for doing so are > raised. Why? Because said library reads data from untrusted sources > (file systems) and as such I would be obligated to send out security > updates if I was carrying the code. > > Thus, I believe the socalled "hal/udev dependencies" to be a non-issue > until valid complaints are raised. > > Have a nice day. > > David > > -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
