Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 May 2009 22:38:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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)...
I don't see how it depends on Gnome. In any case, it's not obvious to
me from either the link you posted nor from DeviceKit's homepage.
The only useful app using DeviceKit at this point depends on gnome.
So to get DeviceKit to do anything at all, you need gnome. This is due to
current circumstance, not design.
Then I suppose everyone else will switch to DeviceKit at some point? If
it's better than HAL then why criticize DeviceKit at all? Isn't this
what we want, getting away from HAL?
