[illumos-Developer] HAL

[Alan Coopersmith]

Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> The main problem seems to be that GNOME did break the layering rules and 
> introduced functionality that do not belong into a GUI. There is no doubt, that
> GIMP belongs in total into a GUI, but in case of OS services like removable
> media management, the GUI should be no more than control and display.

HAL is a system daemon & library, not a GUI.   GNOME is a consumer of HAL,
just as it's a consumer of libc.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System