[oe] HAL and Xserver

[Koen Kooi]

On 13-01-09 20:23, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:10:59 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz:
>> Hi
>>
>> Current x11-image depends on 'angstrom-x11-base-depends' which adds HAL.
>> For one customer I am building images with 1.3.0.0 xserver-kdrive so HAL
>> is not required at all (not to mention that it does not find any devices
>> when mdev is used instead of udev).
>>
>> I created patch which removes HAL from 'angstrom-x11-base-depends' and
>> moves it into dependencies of xserver-(kdrive,xorg) newer then 1.3.0.0.
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>
> Sounds good. I'd even welcome if we could disable it for all versions.

You can't, it's needed to get input devices nowadays, there's a 3 month 
long flamewar about it on the xorg mailinglists if you want some 
background on it.

regards,

Koen