On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 11:38 -0400, Kenton Groombridge wrote: > Hi, > > A little while ago the upstream TuneD project added their own > implementation of power-profiles-daemon, tuned-ppd. At a high level, > both of these services provide a D-Bus API to set various power states > on the system, e.g. "powersave" or "performance". > > While modifying the ebuild for sys-apps/tuned to install it[1], I > figured we ought to go ahead and switch the default implementation of > power-profiles-daemon in its reverse dependencies to sys-apps/tuned for > the following reasons: > > 1) The upstream power-profiles-daemon project[2] appears to have > stalled, with no activity in over 8 months. > 2) TuneD provides more features and more available power profiles. Some > of these profiles are already well optimized for various workloads. > 3) TuneD arguably has better support, having been around for more than a > decade. > 4) Users who wish to use power-profiles-daemon anyway can just install > it manually instead of TuneD. We're only changing the default here.
Reading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293628#c46 makes me skeptical about changing the default to it > > Looking at other distros, Fedora has already switched to using > tuned-ppd[3]. Debian sid still defaults to power-profiles-daemon, but > there is a separate tuned-ppd package that can provide it. Arch has no > default, as both power-profiles-daemon and tuned-ppd are optional > dependencies. > > I intend to make this change within the next week or two unless there > are any outstanding concerns. > > [1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/43982 > [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon > [3] > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/TunedAsTheDefaultPowerProfileManagementDaemon
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