On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Kapshuk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/23/2014 11:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 23/08/2014 09:51, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> On 08/23/2014 10:31 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>>> xfce4-power-manager-1.3.0 and older uses UDisks 1.x for controlling disk >>>> spinning, like to reduce it >>>> >>>> xfce4-power-manager-1.3.1 and higher removed UDisks 1.x dependency and >>>> the spindown feature, supposedly it had issues >>>> and doesn't work with SSD anyway... anyways, upstream decision to not >>>> use udisks anymore >>>> >>>> so, i recommend upgrading to 1.3.1, adding it to package.keywords if >>>> required >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> samuli >>> Thanks for your response. >>> >>> I remember being advised on this list against mixing both stable and >>> unstable packages as much as possible. >>> >>> Does that still hold true? Or would it be OK to pull this one in without >>> braking anything unnecessarily? >> >> I think you have a wrong impression. There is actually not much wrong >> with mixing stable and unstable as long as you do it sensibly. >> >> What you shouldn't do is to wantonly mix packages in @stable and other >> basic libs and still expect it to work. Stable gcc and unstable glibc >> with jpeg, zlib and openssl all mixed and matched any old way is certain >> to show inconsistencies (as you will be the only person who has ever >> tested that combination). >> >> What is being proposed here is that you take one userland package >> (xfce4-power-manager) and upgrade it to the new version. It's highly >> unlikely to break anything and I can tell that just by looking at it's >> purpose and where it fits in the stack. It will either work or not, and >> the list of things that might link to it are a rather small list indeed. >> >> So just give it a spin, you can always revert if it's incompatible with >> everything else you have. >> >> The answer to the last question you pose is correctly "mu" as no-one can >> possibly answer it properly. The best we can do for you is paint the big >> picture and ask you to try then report back if it works, as I have done >> above. >> >> >> > I'll give that whirl. Thanks. >
I updated the xfce4-power-manger as suggested: equery -q l '*power-manager*' xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.3.1 So far, I have not experienced anything abnormal. Thanks for the list's help.
