[rant] keeping policy in HAL

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:33:02PM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 2. If the evdev driver is not installed on the system it does not flip 
> it's default.

Arguably, that's a busted configuration. The standard fdi tells HAL to add
input.x11_driver=evdev (on linux systems). If you then deny X the driver you
explicitly told it to load, you end up without input devices.

Pretty much the same behaviour when you remove mouse/kbd, btw.

Cheers,
  Peter