On 2021-09-19 20:24+0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > […] > > Or maybe I'll try and find pm-suspend again on the web. Maybe it > > had some feature (or bug workaround) which the more modern packages > > are lacking. > > That's just what I did. A web search for pm-utils found it easily > enough. pm-suspend works again, and I'm a happy chappy - almost. Why > was pm-utils taken off of portage in the first place? Was there some > sort of security problem, or was it just because it hadn't been > updated in a fair while (since 2013, I think)?
It was removed because upstream abandoned it. It was announced in <https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-04-14-elogind-default.html> which references <https://bugs.gentoo.org/659616>. > That's another feature missing from portage - a systematic way of > discovering why a package has been removed. `eselect news read all | less` is sometimes helpful. 😄 -- Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tasty...@tastytea.de` or at <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>.
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