[illumos-Developer] HAL

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

If this was true, then there would be no need to link it against GNOME libs.

Jörg

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