G-P-M on the wrong track?!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 05:44:01 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:23 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > General I agree (specially for such big       subject area as
> powermanagement), but 
> > there are also some little problems where it maybe make sense to
> have a HAL 
> > addon to set some propertys for devices to prevent develop a damon
> only to 
> > set one property.
> 
> A suid root callout (which can only be called by hal) for these things
> makes sense. Of course it is still more effort than just throwing the
> code into hald itself, but it is worth the effort. It's still less
> effort than maintaining an extra source package for a dbus service.

Yes, this may work too. I want to wait and see what David Zeuthen says..

Richard.



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