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Bug#783247: Please don't install acpid and acpi-support-base



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On Apr 24, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:

> A while ago, I already filed a bug to have acpid and acpi-support-base
> removed from tasksel [1], since it duplicates functionality which is
> nowadays provided by systemd/logind.
Indeed they are not needed when systemd is used (but are still required 
on sysvinit systems).

> I'm not sure, if the "acpi" command line utility is that useful which
> would warrant having it installed by default. The attached patch drops
> it as well. Incidentally, this was also suggested for the laptop-task,
> which still pulls it in.
The acpi package is *totally useless* and should be immediately dropped 
from hw-detect and task-laptop.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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