[Mageia-dev] Deprecating pm-utils

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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