Re: Why is Desktop NetBSD a threat to NetBSD?

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 10:03 Uhr -0500 14.2.2009, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> > Hauke Fath wrote:
> > > At 12:24 Uhr +0100 14.2.2009, Adam Hoka wrote:
> > > > Gnome with HAL, pulseaudio and friends are already available from pkgsrc,
> > > > take it or leave it.
> > > My understanding is that pkgsrc HAL lacks a NetBSD backend for hot-plug
> > > support - exactly the part that would interfere with existing structures in
> > > NetBSD base.
> > Your understanding is totally incorrect.
>
> "totally", is it, Jared? I stand corrected.
>
> You might have started, though, by telling me to when full-scale NetBSD HAL
> support hit pkgsrc (alternatively, a pointer).

Some time last year, when sysutils/hal was imported.

> So, I can install meta/gnome*, plug in a USB stick, and have it appear on
> the desktop? What about KDE? And what interactions with /etc citizens do I
> have to expect?

Supposed to work out of the box, there might be some bugs (/media 
directory not created automatically for example). Works for me on GNOME, 
I'm told Xfce4 works, haven't tried KDE4 as it uses its own 
implementation of libhal, and I can't be arsed to spend any time on KDE3.

Not sure what you mean by /etc interactions.