[Mageia-dev] Deprecating pm-utils

Wed Oct 17 18:08:46 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 17/10/12 16:54 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:04:09 +0100
+> Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> So I think everything these days is using pm-utils are:
+>>
+>>
+>> kdebase4-workspace
+>> samsung-tools
+>> upower
+>> xfce4-power-manager
+>>
+> .. snip ..
+>>
+>> Only one I have no idea about is xfce4. I suspect it'll use upower
+>> too, but not really sure.
+>>
+> 
+> After checking Arch and Fedora pkgs I guess it's not needed and
+> dropped the req from xfce4-power-manager. We'll see later if someone
+> complains about the removal. :)
+
+Well the main issue is the various "quirks", but I'm convinced a good
+chunk of those quirks are not needed these days anyway. They seem to be
+a dumping group of things that have been done once to fix an issue with
+given h/w on a given kernel/graphics driver, but other tools and
+infrastructure has since moved on and they've not been
+revisited/retested. I'm reaching out to other upstreams to see what
+their take on things is.
+
+I still have some issues with network mounts but that's the only thing I
+have had a problem with recently (and the same was true with pm-utils
+anyway I think!).
+
+But I'll need to investigate a bit more.
+
+Ideally everyone should do an rpm -e --nodeps pm-utils and just see how
+their installs fair :)
+
+Perhaps for the alpha3 I'll see if we can enforce this and get wider
+testing :D
+
+Col
+
+
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