[arch-dev-public] Out-of-date orphans in repo

Phil Dillon-Thiselton dibblethewrecker at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 12:01:55 EDT 2009


2009/3/8 Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:29 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>
>> We should really drop this hwd stuff. Apparently some howtos still
>> recommend using "hwd -xa" to generate xorg.conf, but this command
>> will
>> generate a bloated configuration file that is probably not even
>> compatible to the latest xorg-server versions.
>
> I would like to get rid of both lshwd and hwd packages. I don't consider
> them useful anymore, as there's better autodetection methods available
> in archlinux.
>
> Removing hwd will fix bug 13448, 13447 and 13630.
>
>
I've never found them very useful myself so I don't have issue with them going.


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