On 13/04/09 Mike Edenfield said: > Having said that, hal is exactly the kind of thing I would expect Gentoo > users to flock to: its powerful, flexible, extensible, configurable, and > it's the new cutting-edge stuff from the upstream vendors. Before it went > offline, the Gentoo wiki was easily the most informative place on the web > to find information about hal. I would have predicted hal going mainsteam > on Gentoo years ahead of Red Hat or Debian.
I would have predicted the opposite. Gentoo users are obviously control freaks who drive cars with standard transmissions and build their own computers. Real men manage their own /etc/fstab. ;-) > Also, just for the record, hal isn't by any stretch of the imagination a > "new" daemon. Its been a USE option for Gentoo's gnome-vfs package since > Gnome 2.8, in 2004. Yes, and at the Ottawa Linux Symposium a talk was given entitled, "How users space sucks". http://lwn.net/Articles/192214/ "HAL was responsible for opening almost 2000 files. It will read various XML files, then happily reopen and reread them multiple times. The bulk of these files describe hardware which has never been anywhere near the system in question. Clearly, this is an application which could be a little smarter about how it does things." One member of the audience claimed that hald's repeated probing of his Thinkpad's CDROM drive to see if a CD had been inserted was responsible for killing it. That said it doesn't seem to be going away so I really must go through some tutorial on it. Actually I could use one that covers the following: - sysfs - udev - hal - dbus and finally - lvm I'm sooooo far behind. I heard someone was going to write a daemon to manage /etc/resolv.conf, and I could only cringe. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoul...@digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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