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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:56:24 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        Jens Jahnke <jan0sch@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: future of the desktop
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=DKwX5LAbT3PHoqpGd-uxHVYWC1CUz2vOaz%2BG9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110127152453.8377cc77.jan0sch@gmx.net>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Jens Jahnke <jan0sch@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:24:23 +0100
> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>
> P> Keep in mind that all the "magic" the U* are doing on Linux
> P> have been done by FreeBSD's devd for many years now. Maybe
> P> this is the chance to revert to a WORKING and STABLE infra-
> P> structure on FreeBSD. Just remember: FreeBSD had "hotplug
> P> capabilities" and "automounter" for many years, even BEFORE
> P> HAL and DBUS came to desktop land.
>
> Amen. :-)

Yes, but DBus is a generic IPC system. It is just slightly related to
automounting and hotpluging. I mean, DBus is an easy way for
communicating processes that provides, among other things, activation
of well-known services. That's it's goal.

On the other side, I think HAL is not necessary at all since devd is
enough to do that.

Cheers

>
> --
> 27. Hartung 2011, 15:24
> Homepage : http://www.jan0sch.de
>
> The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
>



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