Bug#285912: gnome-desktop-environment should not recursively depend on hotplug

[Loic Minier]

reassign 285912 hal
tags #285912 + wontfix
thanks

        Hi,

On jeu, déc 16, 2004, David Madore wrote:
> It seems that gnome-desktop-environment has recently begun depending
> (indirectly, through gnome-volume-manager and hal) on hotplug and
> udev
> This is wrong: it should be quite possible to use Gnome (including the
> gnome-desktop-environment meta-package, to make sure one has all the
> necessary stuff) without bringing in all the mess of hotplug (because
> of the oddities of my hardware, hotplug wreaks more havoc than you can
> possibly imagine; this certainly doesn't mean I shouldn't have
> Gnome!).  So one of the dependencies along the line must be weakened
> to "recommends" or something.  [Incidentally, the problem is recent, I
> think, so it's probably more like a mistake that should be fixed than
> like a real design decision.]

 hal has to receive event about hardware by a mean or another as a
 desktop is also using external hardware (cameras, usb stick, ipod,
 printer...).  It's currently depending on udev (which now replaces
 hotplug).  Other packages than hal are relying on the presence of udev,
 such as pcmcia-cs (for CardBus cards), libgphoto2-2 (for cameras), or
 libusb-0.1-4.

 I don't think this is a bug to indirectly depend on packages providing
 access to hardware presence information.  If you have/had problem with
 hotplug/udev, file bugs against them.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>