On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Thayer Williams <thayerw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 14:35, timetrap <timetrap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> KISS dictates that we abandon abstraction tools as much as possible. >>> Especially those tools that duplicate functionality. >> IMO, the most KISS thing to do with it is keep it, but in the next >> release, remove the -x function entirely. >> > > I'm going to nip this in the bud here and make it clear that I have no > intention of abandoning hwd. Unless the Gov says otherwise, it's > staying in extra. hwd does more than just generate xorg configs and > even then I think it can be updated to generate 'correct' configs. > We're talking about feature requirements that *just* went public in > the past week. > > What's the rush? More to the point: hwd is not an arch tool. It's not even recommended by us anywhere as far as I can tell. It is a useful tool, sure, but why so much stink over one application in extra that is broken? It's just another third party application guys.
