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diff --git a/system/hal-info/README b/system/hal-info/README deleted file mode 100644 index 7593870c27..0000000000 --- a/system/hal-info/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -hal-info is just a small hal package that provides hardware data and quirks. -These quirks are currently things like what mice support reporting battery -status, what music players are supported and what cameras are detected. -This could also include a list of display adaptors that need resuming or a -list of broken batteries that might explode. - -Why split the information data from the main tarball? -Well, policy and probing information is still in the daemon package where -they belong. Hal is released every few months with updated dependencies and -lots of snazzy new features. Users love this, stable distributions hate it, -and don't update HAL, missing the newest hardware quirk updates. This means -that new hardware often won't work out of the box until the next version of -the distro is released. - -For example, stable distro 'x' ships HAL 0.5.9 with no intention of updating -it other than for security fixes. Stable distro 'x' does however update from -hal-info-20070516 to hal-info-{date} as there are no new features, minimal risk -of breaking, and lots of chance that more hardware that didn't work now will. |