Hi Ross,
This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" rather than "depends" relations?
No, not really. The trouble is that this package is installed by default on laptops, and that it's supposed to make laptops "just work". If anybody gets it into their heads to not install "recommends" packages, then the package will no longer work as intended. And there's no proper way for the package to complain.
See also: #410918, #434566.
I'm also puzzled by the presence of xbase-clients, and wonder if laptop-detect is essential. I'm running on server. I'm not sure if acpi is going to do me any good; my motherboard (Intel 945PSN) definitely claims to support it and to have low power modes. Intel support had nothing useful to say about using it under Linux. I'd appreciate any clues on using acpi in this configuration as well (though that's not really part of the bug).
The acpi-support package is primarily intended for laptops. For laptops, battery life is essential. And for power saving on laptops, setting things like screen brightness, DPMS timeouts etc. is definitely essential. This explains the reasons for depending on xbase-clients and laptop-detect. If you want to run acpi-support on a server system, it will normally do no harm, but it won't do much good either. Do you want to use it to go into suspend mode or something like that? If you want to save power on a server, you might be interested in something like laptop-mode-tools, by itself, without acpi-support. But please, enlighten me about your needs. I'm quite willing to think along. :-)
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