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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Handbook x-config-quick-start is missing information to configure
 HAL and DBUS
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On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Benedict Reuschling wrote:
> Am 03.04.15 um 17:07 schrieb Warren Block:
>>
>> Yes.  xorg-server does not use HAL by default any more.  I'm
>> tempted to just remove the HAL/DBUS part of the quick start.
>> Really, the whole Xorg installation section needs a rewrite.  I
>> have an outline for that, but not the motivation.
>
> I'd like to see that happen as well, mainly because of my dislike of
> the extra HAL dependency. Warren, maybe we can work on this on
> Phabricator? If you can provide your outline we can get it moving
> towards a handbook patch sooner. Maybe involving the ports people as
> well is also helpful because they should know what needs to be in
> there (dependency-wise) and what not.

The quick start (which is widely ignored) does have instructions which 
work with the new no-HAL default.

It's been a couple of months since I last worked on the outline, but 
maybe there is a way we can get people to help with it.