Terry (Sarito) Whatley wrote: > Is it really necessary to use the "pmtools" name? None of the commands seem > to use this name. There are many other things that might eventually be > included in a collection of "pm tools", including some we already have > (powertop comes to mind), and some that we will want for SPARC as well. It > seems a shame to burn the name for such a small specific thing, when it is > really an ACPI-specific set of commands. The only place pmtools shows up on > the referenced url is in the name of the tar file ...
Some unix distros use pmtools some use acpidump as the package name. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-power/pmtools http://www.opencsw.org/packages.php/acpidump http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/acpidump ccing Aubrey Li, the upstream maintainer, who Pat was been working with. Pat, Aubrey, Do you have input in terms of which package name to use? Cheers, Jim
