On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat your cat.Although it may kill your crew.
I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think that they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB hotplugging/automounting working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X. And if you disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working.
