Bug#783264: Bug#783247: Please don't install acpid and acpi-support-base
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:07:36PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > 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.
Disagree.
- Acpi is a useful command-line tool to easily read values of things
like battery life expectancy and other ACPI power-related values,
without having to dig through files in /sys.
- It provides more detailed information than most graphical interfaces
that I've seen (but I'd be happy to be corrected).
- Its dependencies are fairly light, so it does little harm.
- As a command-line tool, it is useful even when no GUI is available
(for whatever reason).
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