On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 22:03 +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
May i add xorg-server to the above packages too? I know its not part of core, let alone base, but its a very important package in extra. Current xorg-server in testing comes with HAL enabled. Reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9563 Is that gonna be the default now? Users probably havent reported back on this, but many had problems with it. On the other hand others didnt. Its already a month in testing, but no decision has been made up yet. Should this be reviewed later? What do devs think about this change?
xorg-server is an extra package, not core, so it doesn't ship with the release. As for the HAL-enabled version of xorg-server: we will revert it. To make up a nice summary: 1. The dbus code is shit 2. Configuration of keyboard maps is shit 3. Suspend/resume is shit (probably related to 1.) 4. XInput itself is in very bad state already Point 1 can be triggered by /etc/rc.d/dbus restart. Point 2 can be triggered by wanting something else than a US keymap, combined with some nice non-standard variant Point 3 has been reported in combination with synaptics, but I haven't investigated on it further because I know 1 and 2 are valid. Point 4 was told to me at FOSDEM by Daniel Stone, the only maintainer I know that has the guts to mess with code that nobody wants to get his hands dirty on.