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

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:24:40PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> IMHO hibernate is the special case. In a network environment it is
> pretty optimistic to expect that a suspended Unix machine could
> resume only 5 minutes later and find all external services unchanged
> (on application level).
> 
> But anyway, pm-utils can be kept optional, as I have shown, so why make
> it mandatory for a "minority" of server systems that never will be
> hibernated? Or maybe I'm unreasonable trying to install hal on a server?

We could potentially make it a Recommend instead of a Depend. Most package
management tools should handle that correctly by now.

It's not unreasonable to install hal on a server, just rather odd. Hal is
mostly used in very (hardwarewise) dynamic environments, which a server usually
isn't. Just curious what on your server uses hal?

  Sjoerd
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