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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 14:35, timetrap <timetrap at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> KISS dictates that we abandon abstraction tools as much as possible.
>>> Especially those tools that duplicate functionality.
>> IMO, the most KISS thing to do with it is keep it, but in the next
>> release, remove the -x function entirely.
>>
>
> I'm going to nip this in the bud here and make it clear that I have no
> intention of abandoning hwd.  Unless the Gov says otherwise, it's
> staying in extra.  hwd does more than just generate xorg configs and
> even then I think it can be updated to generate 'correct' configs.
> We're talking about feature requirements that *just* went public in
> the past week.
>
> What's the rush?

More to the point: hwd is not an arch tool. It's not even recommended
by us anywhere as far as I can tell. It is a useful tool, sure, but
why so much stink over one application in extra that is broken? It's
just another third party application guys.