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Re: acpi acpi-support, which one ?



"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:

> I saw the packages "acpi" and "acpid" are very similar to "acpi-support" 
> and "acpi-support-base".

acpi is a utility for querying ACPI status; the remaining three
packages form a dependency chain: acpi-support (event-handling
scripts) -> acpi-support-base (base event-handling scripts) -> acpid
(low-level daemon responsible for running the scripts).

As such, they all get along quite nicely.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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