Bug#525495: Please provide a minimal hal package

2009-04-25 Thread Harald Braumann
Forgot this one in my last mail: disable methods. Also, these files should maybe be called 00-..., so callouts/addons/methods could still be added for specific devices in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, if the user so wishes. Cheers, harry 99-disable-methods.fdi Description: XML document

Bug#525495: Please provide a minimal hal package

2009-04-25 Thread Harald Braumann
Hi, On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:59:16 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Hi Harry, > > > > I agree with you, that HAL has somewhat grown into a kitchensync > > over its lifetime. Unfortunately it's not easily, if at all > > possible to rip HAL apart in smaller pieces (that's why I

Bug#525495: Please provide a minimal hal package

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: > tags 525495 wontfix > thanks > > Harald Braumann wrote: > >> Would it be possible, to provide a minimal hal package that _only_ provides >> information about hardware and hotplugging events? All the additional stuff >> could be provided in an add-on package, which hal would

Bug#525495: Please provide a minimal hal package

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Biebl
tags 525495 wontfix thanks Harald Braumann wrote: > Would it be possible, to provide a minimal hal package that _only_ provides > information about hardware and hotplugging events? All the additional stuff > could be provided in an add-on package, which hal would recommend. I think, > this could

Bug#525495: Please provide a minimal hal package

2009-04-24 Thread Harald Braumann
Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-8 Severity: wishlist hal is now required for Xorg's input hotplugging. This is also the only thing I use hal for. I would like to disable all the other functionality. My main concerns are about security: - hal might change device configurations when a new device is d