On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote:
On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote:
Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in
ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
default?
Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
having a configuration switch?
Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL?
It breaks my mouse and keyboard. I assume it would break other stuff if I
had esoteric devices.
It was born broken, and although there have been about a half-dozen
announced fixes, it always reverts to being broken in pretty much the
same way.
When I eliminate HAL and everything that depends on it, everything works.
It is just this simple:
with HAL = nothing works
without HAL = everything works
It's the only cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which
handles device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.
I'm not running a cross-platform. I'm running FreeBSD. There were native
FreeBSD solutions to hotplugging the devices I use before HAL.
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Lars Eighner
http://www.larseighner.com/index.html
8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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