Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > > If the powerbtn files are included in acpi-support, d-i will need to > > install it on servers. Is this in spec for the package? Thought it was > > basically all about laptops. You may want to consider that before adding > > the files to the main package with its dependencies on nvclock etc. > > I have no firm opinion on that. I guess that if we have to handle that > case seriously, we might use Recommends once apt-get installs them by > default. > > acpi-support was certainly not created to handle servers, but I can't > currently see what harm it could do.
Looking at the dependencies in more detail, it seems to me that if this is
installed on all debian installs by default (which it would even with
recommends), people would probably get annoyed with some of them. In
particular, it would drag in parts of X on servers.
There are good arguments in #426939 about not splitting acpi-support up to
high granularity. But maybe you could split it up into the parts that work on
basically any hardware with acpi, and the parts that are hardware-dependant.
This would be basically the same split we had with acpid and acpi-support
before. Then d-i could install the hardware-independent package on all
machines, and the main package only on laptops.
(BTW, acpi-support's dependency on finger is .. weird, since "who" could
be just as easily used:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>finger| grep -m1 ":0 " | awk '{print $1}'
joey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>who| grep -m1 ":0 " | awk '{print $1}'
joey
)
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