On 09/03/2011 03:45 AM, cfr wrote: > The current version of laptop-mode-tools in testing (Wheezy) recommends > hal but the Debian wiki says of Wheezy: "A very notable change is that > HAL is phased out. If you still have the hal package installed, you > should remove it or it will interference with pm-utils during suspend."
We don't have a core dependency but some modules do require these tools for added functionality. For example, lmt can be invoked from acpid or udev on x86. So both are as Recommends. We don't depend on hal too in the hal-polling-daemon module. We used to, but now it can also use the in-kernel interface, if available. So the Recommends. As for pbuttonsd and pmud, I think they were Recommended because those are the only power management daemons available on other architectures. Since, we also use kernel events now, there are many ways we can be invoked. > If this is correct, hal should be dropped from the list of recommends. Why? Has is created any trouble? You can purge hal and still use lmt? > I suspect that some of the other recommends should be examined as well > since pmud, at least, seems to be very problematic in Wheezy. I'm not > sure about pbbuttonsd. Explained above. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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