On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:23:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > So essentially the oh-so-typical FLOSS development thing happened: > > someone decided that a working method is deprecated and just turns > > it off without even checking whether the functionality can be > > replaced by anything else.
I had the same feeling, too, or at least that the shiny new stuff (HAL) has room for improvement in documentation ... > All I know is that it is deprecated for two years(!) now in the kernel at > large, and that thinkpad-acpi Sure; it was, at least for me, a bad coincidence, that both 2.6.29 and x.org 7.4 entered unstable at roughly the same time and quite some stuff was not (or not the same) working as before. > > Where do we place our priorities again? I thought it was *users*. :) At least not users of unstable :) > What > happened is that we do not pay proper attention to our system-wide > infrastructure anymore. Everything is user-session-this, > desktop-environment-that nowadays. 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 :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Rod Stewart: Smile
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