Jim Walker wrote: > 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
Given that small set of examples I'd personally follow Ubuntu and OpenCSW over Gentoo, and call it acpidump. -- Darren J Moffat
