On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:03:31AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > This sounds like a good idea, but will need very careful logic. > > For instance, some older (APM-based) Toshiba laptops work well with the > > toshiba module and the toshset package where newer (ACPI-based) laptops > > need the toshiba-acpi module which does not work with toshset. > > I would suspect that similar distinctions exist for other makes. > > If installing both packages is a problem on some machines, we would need > to either fix the package to not do evil things on unsupported hardware, > or or have two tasks. >
I am in favor of fixing the packages instead of complicating task selection. From a user persective, task selection should be a no brainer. The user, ideally, should not to be too concerned with whether the laptop has APM, ACPI, or both. I have already adopted toshutils and will be adopting/uploading toshset next week with a new version that is supposed to (according to upstream) handle both APM and ACPI variants. Let me know what I need to do. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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