[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#738696: Not necessarily the right way forward

[Wouter Verhelst]

Hi,

I'm not sure if unconditionally disabling acpi-support if another
suspend handler is running is the right thing to do. For one thing, it
will make it harder (though not to the extent that it would be
impossible to solve) for those of us who prefer acpi-support to handle
this. More importantly, it also doesn't solve the problem of multiple
handlers outside of acpi-support (mate-power-manager and logind were
mentioned in this bugreport) trying to take care of suspend requests and
similar things.

It might be better for such acpi handlers to have a common way of
configuring which one gets to do this. This could be done through the
alternatives system, or through a shared debconf question in the manner
of the desktop managers. The situation here is, after all, very similar:
we have several implementations of things that might want to do the same
thing, where it is at least fairly annoying if multiple of these things
try to do so.

Regards,

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