[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524855: hal should recommend hal-info instead of depending on it

[Michael Biebl]

severity 524855 wishlist
tags 524855 wontfix
thanks

Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> hal-info contains lots of optional configuration data which may or may
> not be wanted by the system administrator.  hal can function without it
> and is useful without it.  In fact, hal can be even be viewed as more
> useful without hal-info if the administrator disagrees with hal-info
> defaults.

There is a simple mechanism to override the configuration via files in /etc/hal/fdi

Given the minimal size and no external dependencies, I don't think demoting the
dependency is a good idea (thus wontfix).
hal-info was not split out into a separate package, because it is an optional
part, but because it is updated more frequently and so can be released
independently from hal.

Michael
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