[arch-general] remove HWD from extra and wiki!

[timetrap]

KISS dictates that we abandon abstraction tools as much as possible.
Especially those tools that duplicate functionality.

hwd should not be maintained any longer than its usefulness dictates.

If you REALLY like this version of hwd, AUR would be a good place to keep it.


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:19 AM, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> wrote:
> Pierre Chapuis wrote:
>>
>> Le Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:10:34 +0100,
>> Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> a écrit :
>>
>>> Well, it does not produce working xorg.conf files. However: X -configure
>>> should be prefered; so there is no need for hwd (anymore).
>>
>> It doesn't provide working xorg.conf files only since xorg 1.5 was moved
>> to extra. That was less than 5 days ago... I believe it will be updated to
>> take the changes into account.
>>
>> To me, hwd is a very useful tool, so please don't remove it from extra
>> without a second thought.
>>
>
> Well I got to say about this that hwd has never produced a 100% accurate
> result for me on all kinds of systems. Even my old soundblaster live is
> wrongly detected as an audigy card. Let alone that I would trust this tool
> before the official Xorg tools to generate an X config.
>
> Glenn
>