Bug#381906: please add gnome-power-manager to laptop task
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> Le mardi 08 août 2006 à 12:32 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
>> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> > Most concerns are about the UI which needs improvement, but I think they
>> > are outweighed by the benefits now. Anyway, gnome-screensaver doesn't
>> > work correctly when gnome-power-manager isn't installed, thus I have
>> > made it a dependency of the "gnome" metapackage (unless xscreensaver is
>> > installed).
>>
>> The gnome metapackage isn't used by tasksel. Does gnome-screensaver need
>> gnome-power-manager installed even on non laptop machines?
>
> It isn't needed per se, but it's definitely better, as gnome-screensaver
> alone won't handle DPMS stuff. IMHO, the default setup should install
> either g-screensaver and g-power-manager, or xscreensaver alone.
In this case it can be included in desktop-gnome task then. Looks to
be the simplest solution.
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