Hello, tastytea. On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 22:50:30 +0200, tastytea wrote: > On 2021-09-19 20:24+0000 Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > […] > > > Or maybe I'll try and find pm-suspend again on the web. Maybe it > > > had some feature (or bug workaround) which the more modern packages > > > are lacking. > > That's just what I did. A web search for pm-utils found it easily > > enough. pm-suspend works again, and I'm a happy chappy - almost. Why > > was pm-utils taken off of portage in the first place? Was there some > > sort of security problem, or was it just because it hadn't been > > updated in a fair while (since 2013, I think)? > It was removed because upstream abandoned it. It was announced in > <https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-04-14-elogind-default.html> > which references <https://bugs.gentoo.org/659616>. It was indeed. I think I missed it because "pm-utils" didn't ring any alarm bells whereas "pm-suspend" would have done. > > That's another feature missing from portage - a systematic way of > > discovering why a package has been removed. > `eselect news read all | less` is sometimes helpful. 😄 Thanks! > -- > Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys [email protected]` or at > <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
