On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:34:10PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> >I don't want hal depending on acpid. I will patch the hal acpi addon 
> >to not
> >directly use the proc interface iff /usr/sbin/acpid exists.
> 
> 
> The hal ACPI addon already won't directly use the proc interface iff 
> /usr/sbin/acpid exists and acpid is started. The other case is 
> /usr/sbin/acpid exists and acpid is not started. Apart from not directly 
> using the proc interface, what will the hal ACPI addon do in this case? 
> Abort hald's launch?

Use the socket provided by acpid to monitor the events.
 
> BTW, acpid is 180 kB and has no meaningful dependencies. This is a 
> moderate size, even compared to hal itself. Is there anything other than 
> acpid's size that makes you want to avoid depending on it?

Because it's just not needed for hal. It just add extra complexity

  Sjoerd
-- 
So little time, so little to do.
                -- Oscar Levant


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