As I have already commented on
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614861 the package
could be split by extracting power saving hooks ("power.d/*") into
separate package. This way people who already have pm-utils would
still get 99% of functionality of the original pm-utils package and
those who would really like to use pm-utils power.d hooks instead of
l-m-t could install the package that would conflict l-m-t.
Until recently (1.3.0-3) pm-utils shipped only one "power.d" hook
("sched-powersave") in their distribution and some people probably got
used to use l-m-t together with pm-utils because they were
complementing each other (runtime power saving in l-m-t, and
sleep/hibernate tools in pm-utils). Right now (1.4.1-6) the pm-utils
added some scripts into "power.d" and suddenly you cannot use both
packages anymore. Of course it would be nice if both projects merged
their efforts but it seems unlikely in the near future.
I think it is about the choice because right now you can have
"acpi-support" but only when you have "pm-utils" which means that you
cannot have "laptop-mode-tools". Or you can have "laptop-mode-tools"
but without "acpi-support" which is also laptop oriented and it is
nice to have them both.
Splitting out the power saving hooks seems like the best solution to
me but of course I may be wrong.
What do you think about it?
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Best regards,
Piotr Szczepanik
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