also sprach gregor herrmann <[email protected]> [2009.04.21.1948 +0200]: > I completely agree. When I tried to get at least a basic > understanding of HAL I very often hit instructions like "and then > (gnome,kde,whatever)-FOO-daemon will take care of the rest" or > "and then just use (gnome,kde,whatever)-config-BAR to configure > stuff." -- Good to see I'm not the only one disliking this > development :)
Fundamentally, HAL is a great idea, as is dbus. Even though we usually associate them with desktops and new-fangled stuff, both actually also make sense on a server, where abstracted hardware is just as useful as a central policy-based routing engine for messages. The problem is that you don't *need* those things for servers (yet). As a result, it's desktop-oriented people who implement the first versions of these tools, and they have a very different understanding of needs than people who are used to actually *system* administration. I don't want to bitch, but maybe we just need some non-(free)desktop people to put some love into HAL and give it the ability to do anything you like, not just generate input events. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today." - friedrich nietzsche
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