On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 08:49:33PM +0100, Robert Luciani wrote: > > Yes, I know about hal and friends, but I'd like to keep this stuff away > > from my machines. In fact I think that it's insane to have such complex > > stuff to solve so simple things. > > It would still be nice to provide compatibility so that existing apps > like gnome-volume-manager, and gnome-power-manager work as expected.
hal is a pure nightmare from a security perspective and a typical example of over-design. I would go as far as saying that neither application really applies to *BSD. Joerg
