[Mageia-dev] HALectomy on mageia ?

Thu Mar 17 04:32:17 CET 2011

+
+Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Thu, 17 March 2011 03:28
+>
+> On 17 March 2011 04:08, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> >
+> > You mean simply drop Gnome, Gimp, Gphoto, XFburn, Nut, etc. and
+> > probably
+> > not being able to build some other apps that aren't in the Mageia
+> > repos
+> > yet and might require HAL?
+> 
+> First of all, where did mikala say anything about "dropping right
+> now"?
+
+Mikala? Why do you mention him?
+
+> All the apps you picked (from the Fedora page?) can probably work
+> without hal, (e.g. I don't have haldaemon running for about 4-5 months
+> now, and gimp works OK).
+
+I didn't pick anything, I simply listed the apps that appear as
+dependencies in Balcaen John's first post of this thread and asked if he
+meant dropping those.
+See here if you missed the earlier emails:
+http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=2540
+
+> The point is, other major distros have already gone through the
+> halsectomy phase, which means we have very rich resources to draw on.
+
+True, but again IMHO this is a major structural change, which AFAIK isn't
+supposed to happen until after Mageia 1 has been released.
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