HAL must die!

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 7 14:33:14 UTC 2011


On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote:
> Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in
> ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
> default?
>
> Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
> having a configuration switch?

Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL? It's the only 
cross-platform thing available for non-Linux systems which handles 
device enumeration, hotplugs, etc.



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