[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#477913: Bug#477913: tried it, of course

[Michael Biebl]

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> PS: Of course I tried it. I rebuilt hal listing "pm-utils" under
> "recommended", and kicked it out. Result: hal is working fine.

Sure, because you don't use suspend/hibernate.

> AFAICS only some scripts in tools/linux/hal-system-power* are affected
> by not installing pm-utils. Maybe it would be possible to make these
> scripts print out a note and exit if pm-utils is not there?
>

Sounds like a very bad idea to me, sorry.
We will certainly get a flood of messages from (desktop)users, where 
suspend is not working anymore (klicking on gnome-power-manager fails, 
boo). Imho we should optimise for the common case, not the special case.

Michael
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