Hi, Michael Biebl wrote: > currently tasksel installs hibernate *and* acpi-support for the laptop > and desktop task. This is already one package too much, as they overlap > in functionality and confuses users, as they don't really know which one > they should use. In addition hibernate and acpi-support are rather > complex script packages. > > Beginning with hal-0.5.10, the pkg-utopia group decided to only support > the new pm-utils [1][2] package as suspend backend for hal and made it a > dependency. So now there will be three suspend frameworks installed. > As the majority of desktop users either use gnome-power-manager, kpowersave > or kde-guidance-powermanager (which all use hal's suspend() methods), > hibernate and acpi-support are useless and again, only add to confusion, > as the user can't really know, why three of them are installed and which > one is actually used. > I thus recommend to remove acpi-support and hibernate from the laptop > and desktop task and add pm-utils instead (although not strictly > necessary as hal depends on it anyways). > > A big advantage of hal+pm-utils is that both are freedesktop projects > and already adopted by several major distros, like Fedora, Mandriva or > opensuse. It has the potential to become *the* common power management > infrastructure. Ubuntu is also considering to switch to hal+pm-utils for > their next release and plans to obsolete acpi-support [3]. Another > reason to remove acpi-support from tasksel.
So perhaps we should simply standardise on pm-utils. According to the Ubuntu wiki page, acpi-support still needs to be around to send key events (for IBM/Lenovo laptops which sends key events through ACPI, I presume). What we can do then is to replace hibernate with pm-utils in the laptop task. What does everyone think? -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
