[oe] HAL and Xserver

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:51:26 schrieb 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.

Thanks. That's very unfortunate, but hey... source is out there, I can patch 
it out.

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