Why is HAL being made the default when it's not ready?

[Derek Broughton]

Dave M G wrote:

> Bo said:
>> Um...a friendly piece of advice.  Before addressing developers who put
>> together fantastic software that doesn't cost you a dime, you might want
>> to
>> get your facts straight.  I bet your left nut that Intrepid isn't the
>> first
>> Ubuntu to use HAL.  Even if it were, a little humility and gratitude is
>> in order, especially if you upgraded with no backup.

> First, it's not that I haven't identified the problem correctly. The
> developers have made clear that the new HAL settings are the problem.
> What I am seeing happen is exactly what is described on the web page I
> linked to before.

The new hal _settings_, not hal as such.  Hal has been around a long time,
but hal hasn't been handling _your_ little bit of hardware.
> 
> Plus, if you don't have a Wacom tablet, then you don't know what it's
> like to get Linux of any flavour to get it working properly. 

Ah yes!  That little bit of Xorg hard-coding that has been pissing off so
many of us for so long.  So, with Intrepid they have stopped hard-coding
Wacom support into xorg.conf - presumably it's working in most cases - and
it's broken for you.  A lot more people are likely to be pleased than
otherwise.
-- 
derek