Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >On May 05, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> * Same for question for "dmidecode": could the priority be lowered
> >> to
> >> "standard"?
> >I think that this is fine, as long as it is still available in d-i.
> >But laptop-detect (which I do not understand why it is being installed
> >on something that is very obviously not a laptop) depends on it.
>
> That's the point - laptop-detect is the package that detects *if*
> you're on a laptop...
There's almost no legitimate reason to check for a laptop these days.
All systems should enable power management. Handling for
internal/external displays is all automatic now. Many desktops have
wireless and bluetooth.
Detecting "laptop" versus "desktop" today seems a lot like doing browser
user-agent sniffing. Just check for the features you want instead.
What would it take to get rid of laptop-detect?
> >> - bsd-mailx, exim4*, procmail, mutt:
> >> Often not useful on desktop systems, has popular alternatives,
> >> probably not needed in chroot/container environments either.
> >> -> demote to "optional"
> >Everything that needs them already depends on them.
> >Also, can we finally replace exim with postfix as the default for
> >stretch? :-)
I think the default becomes much less relevant if we kick it out of
standard, which I hope we can.
- Josh Triplett
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