On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I >> > don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if >> > at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's >> > design is a mish- mash of stuff throwwn together. At least, that's what >> > the lead hal dev says >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit#Dependencies >> >> I haven't looked into this in any depth but it seems like Devicekit will >> not be an improvement (looks like it brings in the "kitchen sink" in >> dependencies - I'm also "allergic" to gnome)... > > in my opinion a 'solution' that is based on the worst desktop (gnome) is the > worst possible 'solution'. What about kde users? what about xfce? fluxbox? > enlightenment users? > > Fedora screws everybody over. Like always. >
Now that seems a bit strong. Presumably they aren't screwing over Fedora 11 Gnome users. (Draw Venn diagram now to look for small portion...) I don't disagree with you but it would seem that they have to start somewhere... Cheers, Mark
